Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta

From: Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta
Date: 2006-09-14 10:50:15
Message-ID: 450933E7.1060709@logix-tt.com
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Hi, Jeremy,

Jeremy Drake wrote:

>>> Another possibility would be to test these patches in some kind of virtual
>>> machine that gets blown away every X days, so that even if someone did get
>>> something malicious in there it wouldn't last long.
>
> Or just have a snapshot which is reverted after each run, and read-only
> access to files used to do the build. I know vmware supports this,
> probably others too...

A chroot / fakeroot combined with unionfs should do the same, probably
with less effort. There are other user-mode jail projects that also
block networking.

Markus

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