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moesi

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Registered: 2014-02-27

Posts: 48

Howto - Separate Testing and Developing Environment

Hi there!

Well, we are testing and developing with different technologies (@ university courses) and i think i have messed up my environment. So, i wanted to know whats the best practice to separate my private developing and gaming arch installation from the test/developing environment...

My thought was to install arch in virtualbox again.
Are there other options?

Greetings
Moesi

onslow77

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Registered: 2014-09-21

Posts: 279

Re: Howto - Separate Testing and Developing Environment

...i think i have messed up my environment...

I have the following questions:
- What are the error outputs?
- What are the symptom/effect of the problem?
- What develoment tools do you use?
- what "environment" for example KDE, Gnome do you use?

Regards
Martin

Last edited by onslow77 (2016-12-05 20:59:40)

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eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: Howto - Separate Testing and Developing Environment

How have you messed it up? There's no good reason you can't use one environment for both, and "messed up" always has a solution. Of course, you must provide actual details to get a solution!

If you just want separate environments "just in case", sure, use a VM or a chroot/systemd-nspawn container or something. But surely you didn't come all this way to confirm that standard idea...

Last edited by eschwartz (2016-12-05 20:57:20)

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moesi

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Registered: 2014-02-27

Posts: 48

Re: Howto - Separate Testing and Developing Environment

Well i had some strange dependencie issues when i wanted to updated last week. I have installed so many different tools - that i am for sure, will forget to delete when i dont need them anymore.
For example i tried different ide's for c++ development, i had dbs installed (not in a container) and so on...

Well if the answer is: Use a VM. I am fine with it. As i said, just wanted to know if thers a certain usage.

thanks for the quick replays

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

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Re: Howto - Separate Testing and Developing Environment

"strange dependencie issues" is a very vague term.
Things from the repos should be able to coexist without problems, unless pacman marked them as conflicts in which case duh.

But forgetting to delete no-longer-needed packages is an easy fix. If I don't know whether I want to keep something, I use "--asdeps" to install it, and it shows up as an orphaned package. So it is easy to clean up the system.

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