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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:06:45AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls AT pareto.nl>:
> > I have a question about the ppc port of smgl.  I notice that the intel
> > version has a new (and sensible) naming scheme, and I was wondering if
> > the ppc versions are equivalent to the old intel versions or if ppc is
> > following its own numbering scheme.
> > 
> > If not, where would that put the ppc port as far as grimoires and the
> > package management software (sorcery) compared to the intel port?
> > 
> > Thanks again,
> 
> The latest PPC ISO does not use the same installation scripts as the x86 
> ISO as
> it was mostly just updated from the 0.8.1 ISO instead of using the latest
> Cauldron scripts, but the next PPC/x86 ISOs should be closer together in 
> that
> respect. As for Sorcery and the grimoires, they may be a little more 
> up-to-date
> on the PPC ISO since it was released a while after the x86 ISO, but that 
> should
> be the only difference.
> 
> Now that our ISO/Cauldron Team is getting back all of our ISOs should 
> follow the
> same layout with the same grimoires and Sorcery on them (unless Unet decides
> otherwise :)).
> 

I of course made the assumption that after the initial install you would
do sorcery/scribe update to get up to date sorcery and grimoires, at
which point you'd be no different than x86 in that regard.

-Andrew

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