From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:07:27 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] RFC: Adding Vagrant file for provisioning In-Reply-To: References: <1441836107-17689-1-git-send-email-angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com> <55F0AF60.7030102@mind.be> Message-ID: <55F13A3F.2040109@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 10-09-15 08:15, Angelo Compagnucci wrote: > Dear Arnout Vandecappelle , > > 2015-09-10 0:14 GMT+02:00 Arnout Vandecappelle : >> 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 >>> --- >>> >>> 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