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Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:24:36 -0700
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Development environment
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Welcome, Jeremy,

Jeremy Thomerson wrote:
> I am new to Alpine Linux and would like to experiment with it and 
> possibly submit patches to improve the ACF modules, or add new ACF 
> modules.  My main question is: what do you use for your development 
> environment?  Do you have a physical box that you have Alpine loaded on 
> that you use for development?  Do you use a VM?
> 
ACF developmemt is lua based, so I used a vm with a local web 
server+git.  Of course, there's probably good reasons I'm not involved 
in the web development much these days.

For compiling C code, there's the chroot environment
http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/w/index.php?title=Setting_up_the_build_environment

> I installed Alpine on a VMWare VM tonight, and it runs on it fine.  But 
> on every reboot, I lose the configuration.  I added a USB controller to 
> the VM, mounted the USB stick and did an lbu commit, which worked fine.  
> But it doesn't seem to auto-mount the USB stick on boot (/dev/sdb1).  

Looking at the initrc, it /looks/ like the apkovl has to be on the first 
usb drive, which would normally be /dev/sda; not sdb

Well, actually it has to be on a device that is automounted; the init 
script looks for cdrom, floppy and usb.

If you are booting from a virtual USB device, store your apkovl there. 
Otherwise, try creating a virtual floppy and storing it on floppy.

> I'm not sure if this is a timing issue - perhaps VMWare doesn't make the 
> USB stick appear to the VM early enough.  Maybe there's a simple command 
> that once the machine is booted will let me mount the stick and then 
> load the committed configuration from it.  Anyway, I'd be interested in 
> seeing if you have any ideas for this setup and/or finding out what 
> other Alpine devs use for development.

tdtrask is the main ACF developer - he's in EDT so he'll probably have 
more (correct) info for your tomorrow morning.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.
> 




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