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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:56, Geoffrey Derber wrote:
> Hamish Greig wrote:
> > If we throw away the size limit then everything can be in the iso_root
> > and CROSS_INSTALL can even be used to compile the packages to the native
> > ARCH, no caches needed.
>
> I'd be wary of not having a cache, if a compile fails, there would be
> nothing to backup to.  I think there should be something that we could
> backup to.  Or maybe you have it taken care of already?
>
> Geoff
>
I think we are all grasping at different ideas and talking at cross purposes.

in the new world order, /var/cache/sorcery will be filled with lots of cache 
tarballs and they will be used to install the new system.
image.tar.bz2 is dead and buried.

Sometime in the future, a fully laden 450-500MB ISO could compile and install 
a native system using CROSS_INSTALL. If this was done, no caches would be 
necessary, but could be included for ultimate safety if wanted. This 
excercise is left up to some other developer, but the foundations are being 
laid currently.
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