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Just another service that needs to be maintained but isn’t on the books as something that needs to be maintained leading to a wonderful day a couple of years in
by manicdee 5y ago
Just another service that needs to be maintained but isn’t on the books as something that needs to be maintained leading to a wonderful day a couple of years in the future when a license cull of abandoned VMs means all your code stops building successfully on the same day.
- winrid 5y agoI mean, yeah, gotta maintain it. If it breaks one day every 5 years but speeds up build times 2x every day until then, worth it.
- manicdee 5y agoMy complaint isn't about build times, it's about dark repositories which aren't just mirrors of offical repositories but also contain home-grown packages such as "Company X custom VirtualBox Ubuntu box for VMWare" which contains an Ubuntu machine with up-to-date guest tools for the version of VMWare we use, along with the versions of Puppet, NTPd, Samba, and so forth that we use for all our Vagrant-ified infrastructure. Thus we save time over building the guest VM from scratch (about 20 minutes for each box we spin up) but someone has to maintain that repository.