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[The Well-Beloved Bard <dezmond AT bardicgrove.org>]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Adam Clark wrote:
> Hi there John,
> 
> Well, it works for me when I test it, otherwise I don't release it.  I
> generally only take one test install path, though, so sometimes annoying
> little bugs will pop up like the one I just corrected.
> 
> However, I would say that the ISO is being testing "somewhat" as people are
> downloading and using it as need be.  It seems that I am getting the
> appropriate complaints/bugs within a reasonable amount of time after
> releasing an ISO, too.
> 
> So, I would say that "for most people", the ISO is okay.  There are some
> people who are asking for things like grub, pcmcia support, etc., and those
> features will probably be worked into the ISO in the near future.
> 
> <snip>

Haven't had a chance to try the ISO posted on the 15th yet (pulled it down 
today, burn & install tomorrow), but I've run into a problem with the 
previous ISO (posted the 8th? I can't remember).

Once I've installed and reboot, I took the following steps:
1) set root password
2) set http_proxy and ftp_proxy (I'm trying to bring up my new dev box at 
work - behind a firewall)
3) run sorcery to select system optimizations, set email addy, and set 
prompt delay
4) scribe remove test
5) scribe add devel
6) sorcery update
7) cast xfree86 vlock NVIDIA_GLX NVIDIA_kernel mozilla Eterm

I get back an error on xfree86 & vlock (haven't had time to check the 
others yet) that there isn't an MD5 sum, so the spell is aborting.  With 
vlock, I checked and the DETAILS file didn't have an MD5[*] entry, so I 
ran the md5sum and updated the DETAILS file -- worked fine.  With xfree86, 
things aren't so simple.  The spell is aborting with a complaint that 
there is not an MD5sum for the first tgz (X420-1-src.tgz, I think...), so 
I checked the DETAILS file for xfree86, and found that not only was the 
MD5sum there, but it matched the md5sum I ran on the ungzipped file.

Anyone have any thoughts/comments/seen this before?  As noted, I'm going 
to be trying with the 15-jan-2003 ISO tomorrow, but thought I'd bring this 
up.  I'd run on the test tree, but it's lagging behind development on a 
couple of key apps (mozilla being the one I care most about right now...).  

Related question to this last - does cast support multiple grimoires yet? 
(i.e., if I didn't scribe remove test, but did a scribe add devel, would I 
be able to cast devel mozilla, and cast xfree86 (from the test grimoire)?)

Thanks,
steve
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