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So before building each package the board PXE boots and installs the OS onto the USB-attached hard drive? That seems inefficient. Why not use an overlay filesys

by sciurus 15y ago

So before building each package the board PXE boots and installs the OS onto the USB-attached hard drive? That seems inefficient. Why not use an overlay filesystem and just throw away the changes after each build? Is there even a need for local storage, or could the nodes run off an NFS export?

JoshTriplett 15y ago
For one thing each package needs a different build environment, so the overlay filesystem wouldn't necessarily help much. For another, can you say with confidence that the build process (which typically runs some steps as root) will not affect any system state outside of the filesystem?
- jrockway 15y ago
  Why run the build steps as root? Fakeroot seems to work for Debian.