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[Christopher Dombroski <cdombroski AT gambit.gotdns.org>]

Eric Sandall wrote:

>Quoting "David Michael Leo Brown Jr." <dmlb2000 AT excite.com>:
>  
>
>>Many times, either in the process of helping get smgl users up to pure 64bit
>>systems with x86-64 or trying to sort out compile errors with basesystem, I
>>have
>>had to offer my cache files to help fix their machines.
>>
>>Many times problems with basesystem can cascade into greater problems that
>>cause
>>the system to be completely unusable.  The fact that we allow users to do
>>this is
>>one of the things I love about sourcemage.  However, I think we should offer
>>a way
>>for users to get at least their basesystem back from cache files without
>>having to
>>either find the cd or download and burn the cd.  Also, the cd doesn't always
>>come with the latest versions of spells, in some instances this would force
>>users to
>>reinstall the basesystem from the cd just to get something workable (ie 
>>glibc
>>being out of date on the cd vs. the one they might have installed).
>>
>>I would like to see ppc, x86-64, sparc, i386 and i686 cache files on the
>>mirror.
>>I suggest both i386 and i686 because of the number of people that have i686
>>or
>>greater machines.
>>
>>I will offer my x86-64 basesystem spells for the mirror if they are needed,
>>however my other machines compile for pentium[34] so they won't do.
>>    
>>
>
>I like this idea. We can put the tarballs under
>http://download.sourcemage.org/cache/<architecture>/ (e.g.
>http://download.sourcemage.org/cache/i386/). I'd like to request volunteers 
>to
>build these caches and that all spells for this have all optional 
>dependencies
>off (so that we have just the bare-minimum needed and don't require people to
>install extra packages for a quickfix).
>
>Luckily Sorcery has this feature called install_root[0] that will allow 
>anyone
>to do this without having to rebuild their system. :) Just set it up to use
>/opt/smgl for INSTALL_ROOT and STATE_ROOT and you're set.
>
>One problem I due see with this, however, is that we'd have to keep these
>binaries up-to-date. That may not be fun.
>
>Required architectures:
>x86: i386, i686
>x86-64: x86-64, x86-32
>ppc: g3, g4
>
>Anyone see problems with that list? We may have to drop i386 and do i486 as 
>i386
>cannot do glibc+NPTL.
>
>-sandalle
>
>[0] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=install_root+and+others
>
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I have an actuall pentium-mmx machine here, I'd just need to turn on
archiving and recompile the necessary packages. Granted that would that
would take a while to do. And of course, I just realized that that's
probably not entirely helpful since we need i686 not pentium-mmx.
Anyhow, it's available if wanted.

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