running multiple distros (LSB-internal use)
"Wichmann, Mats D" <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:55:24 -0800
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Perhaps lsb-discuss isn't the best place to put this question, but I can't think of a better one. This has nothing to do with the LSB spec, but does affect LSB team internal operations. The LSB team is building up a battery of machines for the different supported architectures, so that we can test things, do builds, etc. However there's a desire to have multiple distributions resident on some of the machines to test cross-distro compatibility when we do silly things like, say, muck with the C++ abi. Debian has a fairly reasonable way to set this up, providing support for installing into a chroot so that you can run, say, "stable" on the base machine and "testing" inside a chroot. Does anyone have advice on good ways to set this kind of thing up for rpm-distros in general, or for any specific distros? I've done something like this on a machine here in my office which has nine different ia32 distros on it, but I've done those by cd-installs each to an empty partition; we don't necessarily have access to physcially plug media into the lsb build machines (or even to reboot them, for that matter), so a different "set up a chroot" mechanism is needed. You can drop me a line privately or post here. Thanks, Mats