[Buildroot] [PATCH] RFC: Adding Vagrant file for provisioning

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 10-09-15 08:15, Angelo Compagnucci wrote:
> Dear Arnout Vandecappelle ,
> 
> 2015-09-10 0:14 GMT+02:00 Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>:
>> On 10-09-15 00:01, Angelo Compagnucci wrote:
>>> This patch adds a Vagrant file to buildroot. With this file
>>> you can provision a complete buildroot developing environment
>>> in minutes on all major platforms.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> This patch is a tentative approach to add a standard and official
>>> Vagrant file to buildroot. With this file you can setup an isolated
>>> build environment based on Vagrant on all major platforms.
>>>
>>> The file is fairly basic right now, it sets up correct Ubuntu version
>>> to download and install required packages for buildroot.
>>>
>>> I'm open to suggestions and critics!
>>
>>  Here goes:
>>
>>  If you're already on a platform that runs vagrant, then you have enough to run
>> buildroot as well, so why would you want to put it inside a VM and double your
>> build time? Buildroot really really tries very hard to make sure it runs in any
>> environment, so there should be no need for any of this trickery.
> 
> Not true. I know of certain corporate environments in which you have
> to stick on windows, and usually the people working in these
> environment use virtual machines also if buildtime will be longer.

 So I was wrong about Vagrant not running on Windows? Oh, now I see. Sorry for
my confusion.

 At some point I considered that we should host an official VM image. This is a
lot better then, of course!


> IMHO with a fairly recent computer you will not notice of being inside
> a virtual machine.

 Do the test. AFAIK it doubles the build time.

> 
> Also having buildroot on mac is not that easy, Vagrant will solve
> these problems brilliantly!

 Yep, I didn't think of that either.



 Regards,
 Arnout

-- 
Arnout Vandecappelle      arnout dot vandecappelle at essensium dot com
Senior Embedded Software Architect . . . . . . +32-478-010353 (mobile)
Essensium, Mind division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.mind.be
G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium . . . . . BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven
LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle
GPG fingerprint:  7493 020B C7E3 8618 8DEC 222C 82EB F404 F9AC 0DDF