On 3/18/06, Manuel Kasper <mk at neon1 dot net> wrote:


> About the automated build server for nightly snapshots: I've
> considered running a job on the m0n0.ch server, but I'm a bit wary of
> doing that since it requires running as root (for vnconfig/mdconfig
> and to get the permissions right) - unless somebody knows of another
> solution for that? Seems a bit wasteful to run a machine 24/7 just
> for generating images. ;) Maybe with jail...

I'm not familiar enough with BSD to suggest a solution for the disk
images. But Debian has a nice utility called fakeroot for building
archives containing root-owned files as your regular user.

http://fakeroot.alioth.debian.org/

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Will Dyson