On 04.01.2017 16:45, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> first, a quick intro of myself: I'm Martin Pitt (nicknamed "pitti" on IRC and
> IRL) and joined Red Hat's Cockpit team yesterday. Until then I've been a 
> Debian
> developer for about 14 years and an Ubuntu developer for about 12½. I've
> touched a lot of things over the years, but most recently I've mostly been
> involved in plumbing (systemd, networking, udisks and the like) and Ubuntu's 
> CI.

Awesome. Welcome :)

Cockpit has had to be involved in so many of the same things...

> While learning about cockpit and how to test it I put together a small script 
> [1]
> that creates a Fedora 25 based Cockpit development VM out of thin air (using
> mkosi). This contains a running cockpit (as it comes with F25) as well as all
> build and test dependencies. This helped me personally to figure out some
> issues with setting up the tests (like [2]), gives me a tool to get a
> reproducible dev environment without cluttering my host system with lots of
> build/test depends, and I can use QEMU's snapshots to reset to a clean state. 
> Stef
> mentioned that this might also be useful for improving our isolation in
> GitHub's integration tests.
> 
> How does it look like? You call it with the output VM path and cockpit's git
> checkout directory as arguments, it will do some grinding and eventually give
> you some info how to use it:

This is pretty cool. And the experience has gotten you familiar with all
sorts of details already. My question is whether you've tried 'vagrant
up' in a cockpit git checkout ... and whether that solves the same issue
... or is hopelessly broken :D

Stef

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