Re: [Astlinux-devel] A quick and easy build environment

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

> On Mar 16, 2020, at 3:54 PM, David Kerr <da...@ke...> wrote:
> 
> Devs,
>   I just discovered multipass... https://multipass.run and decided to give it a try.  It supports Mac, Windows (Pro, not Home) or Linux... for me I installed it on Mac.  Once installed a one-line command gets you a running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS environment...
> 
> multipass launch --name astbuild --cpus 2 --mem 1G --disk 10G
> 
> The first time you do that it takes a little time as it has to download the Ubuntu image.  But once started you can
> 
> multipass shell astbuild
> 
> and then follow the instructions at https://doc.astlinux-project.org/devdoc:documentation.
> 
> You can speed things up by creating a cloud-init file to install all our required packages up-front, so for example on the above launch command add...
> 
>  --cloud-init astlinux-cloud-config.yaml
> 
> where the contents of the yaml file is... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dkerr64/astlinux/develop/astlinux-cloud-config.yaml so the first time you connect to the shell everything is ready for you to git checkout the source, build and install Crosstool-NG and then build AstLinux.
> 
> To get the built AstLinux image out of the VM you would want to 
> 
> multipass mount <host-path> astbuild:<image-path>
> 
> so you can copy files in/out of the Ubuntu VM.
> 
> Enjoy,
> David.

Thanks David,  I never heard of this until now.

Lonnie