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Message-ID: <20130919071521.GA3697@gremlin.ru>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:15:21 +0400
From: gremlin@...mlin.ru
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Owl 3.0 and Virtual Machine Setup?
On 19-Sep-2013 01:59:47 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> I'm interested in setting up a virtual machine for testing Owl
> 3.0 from a development perspective. The development tasks include
> updating built-in components, editing source files, compiling,
> linking, punching holes in the firewall, and setting up jobs to
> launch at system startup.
I'd recommend using OpenVZ containers (VPSes) for these rebuilds.
Setting up a build environment is as simple as
build@...64:~ > lftp -e 'open ftp.ru.openwall.com; cd /pub/Owl/current; mirror -Lev sources; get native.tar.gz; exit' && tar -xzf native.tar.gz
> I'm trying to determine the base OS to use in setting up a
> virtual machine. One of the few relevant search engine hits was
> http://openwall.info/wiki/Owl/packages.
> So I'm clear: for Openwall 3.0 (Owl-3_0-stable-20130408-x86_64),
For development, you may like the -current version: it's quite
stable (personally I use it in the production environment) and
fresh.
> I should chose a virtual machine based on Red Hat Enterprise 4?
> VMware is offering RHEL 3, 4, 5 and 6; but RHEL 4 seems kind of
> odd since its from 2005-2010 and Owl 3.0 is dated April 2013.
> [...]
> What base OS should I be using? Thanks in advance.
RHEL 5 or RHEL 6 should be ok. Also, you can choose "other GNU/Linux
system" and make all necessary changes manually.
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Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin <gremlin ПРИ gremlin ТЧК ru>
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