Re: [Tails-dev] Question regarding Tails build

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Author: Adam Burns
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Question regarding Tails build
kurono,

During the meanwhilst, you may want to take a look at this
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/8304 to get your build working with
a suitable Vagrant version.

On 05/22/2015 01:31 PM, Adam Burns wrote:
> I've taken a very quick look at this.
>
> As the ticket #8086 suggests, it is an issue in the way Rake is used
> with a "Monkey-patched" Vagrant to build TAILS.
>
> Although the devs are keen to move to some other tech (Docker was
> mentioned), I'm looking at removing Rake (and thus the Vagrant library
> calls) from the build process if relatively easy to do so.
>
> I suspect rake was used to front end Vagrant in earlier days when
> perhaps Vagrant was less complete, but from quick examination, I don't
> think Rake is required now (nor I suspect the patching). It would
> simplify things enormously and bring wider Vagrant version compatibility
> across (including non-Debian) build OS environments.
>
> Comments on this welcome, because as I said, I've only started to
> scratch the surface.
>
> Regards,
>
> Adam.
>
> On 05/22/2015 12:15 PM, kurono wrote:
>> I followed this manual:
>> https://tails.boum.org/contribute/build/
>>
>> Beforehand I just had upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie.
>>
>> At the end I had the same error described here:
>> https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2014-July/006258.html
>> https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/8086
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> On 05/22/15 11:24, anonym wrote:
>>> On 05/22/2015 09:43 AM, kurono wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> If I understand it correctly, the only current way of building Tails now
>>>> is manually as described here:
>>>> https://tails.boum.org/contribute/build/
>>>> right?
>>>>
>>>> Or is there another way that works?
>>> Using the Vagrant method also works both in Debian Wheezy and Jessie
>>> (proof: I use it). Please let us know if the existing instructions for
>>> installing the dependencies do not work.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
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