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[Unet <unet AT sourcemage.org>]

Hi,

> > I don't know yet how the "install root" feature of sorcery work, but one 
> >  think I learn from sorcery is that you cannot build a system with only 
> > one step! Compiling binutils/gcc/glibc is quite tricky!!!
> 
> I still think that step 1 and 2 are not needed if you have an existing
> smgl system, and step 3 should be basically running some sorcery commands
> or other things to get the base stuff built.  

Yes, using INSTALL_ROOT should avoid the LFS insanity - there was no
other choice before (I used this method for the ppc ISOs I made), but
here at work, I use chroot systems made with install_root... plus the
cached binaries of one system are used for the others.

> 
> Like Unet was alluding to we can build the spells into cache tarballs
> and publish them for download by the installer, or bundle them with the
> system rather than rebuilding the same monolithic thing we had before.

Exactly. True modularity is the next step imho.

> 
> Lets move forward, not backwards.

...and not crablike :p 


Unet