On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 01:51:19PM +0000, Frank Shearar wrote:
> On 6 December 2012 13:24, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> >
> > 1) Save the final release image as image format 6504 prior to release.
> > This is done by resaving the image from an interpreter VM, which makes
> > it usable by a wider range of VMs including some very old interpreter VMs
> > that may still be in service (e.g. Edgars old Mac that does not have
> > an updated interpreter VM available).
> 
> Given that our CI runs on RHell, with its attendant library problems,
> is it possible to use the InterpreterVM build's output in the
> SqueakTrunkOnInterpreter job?
> 
> If so, we could adjust SqueakTrunkOnInterpreter's job/script slightly
> to do the above automatically, couldn't we?
>

Yes, this can be easily added as a step in either the SqueakTrunk or
SqueakTrunkOnInterpreter job on box3. It's just a matter of running
the final image once more using the interpreter VM and a start script
consisting of "snapshot: true andExit: true".

Dave