Hi Andreas!
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 10:06:47AM +0000, Saira Hussain wrote:> Is the best way to do everything for the internship (or general developing)> using a VM so that it is containerised and safe?In principle there is no reason to use a VM to develop Debian packages.I'm personally running Debian on all machines I control. The onlyreason for me to once setup a VM was to install Debian with kernelfreebds to check some bug that happened in the freebsd flavour ofDebian. In short: No, a VM is not the best way - its an appropriateworkaround if you have no easy access to a running Debian system.> Plus currently I am running> a different distro (ups I shouldn't mention that on a Debian mailing list!) :)Ohoh, now you are banned from the list! ;-)Actually I run for long time Debian but my last attempt crashed the dpkg systemso I decided to play around with a few other solutions. It was quite tricky to dualboot though (especially with one attempt I did with FreeBSD) :)I am always happy to have an extra machine running Debian though, that's probablymy plan for this!Honestly, we are open for everybody. There were several people who arerunning even non-free operating systems on their machines. Its usuallynot very successful to ask for help on non-Debian systems here - but youare free to run your hardware with whatever you like.> Although asking about that I saw the Luibov's Vagrant which looks super awesome!Please excuse my ignorance but what is Vagrant?Oh, Vagrant is a very interesting "open-source software product for building and maintaining portable virtual software development environments, e.g. for VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V, Docker containers, VMware, and AWS". So it's kinda like a VM that you can preset and that'swhat Luibov did on her repository to test the packages (I believe :)! correct me if wrong!)There's more info here: https://www.vagrantup.com> Thanks a lot for your helpYou are welcomeBestSH