On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:59:30 +0100, Michael Schroeder
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 08:58:58PM +0100, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
Notice that you can package in OBS, then let SUSE Studio build an appliance around that package.
Also note that you can build appliances in OBS, too. You just need to write a .kiwi config file.
Ah ... how is that different from running Kiwi on my own machine? Other than not having the disk space, RAM and processors tied up for the duration? ;-) Seriously, though, I'm at a natural breakpoint in my development cycle and I'm looking for ways to enhance the automation of my appliance construction. For the R packages, I could install them using SUSE Studio if I code up the API scripts to get the source files uploaded into the overlay area. But there are so many it's a *lot* faster to build the appliance without them, download it, install them on a virtual machine and upload the binary package library as a unit! Plus the R packaging system does the dependency wrangling for me. If only a SUSE Studio build could fetch from the Internet at run time or during test drive ... Still, I think from a marketing perspective, the best approach is probably to switch to creating add-on product media that install on top of a completed openSUSE install. That solves some "branding" edge cases and saves me the trouble of re-creating the entire distro in its pretty-much useless "unbranded" version. ;-) -- http://twitter.com/znmeb http://borasky-research.net "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Paul Erdős -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org