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[Vasil Yonkov <bustervill AT yahoo.com>]

> I tried to set up Source Mage several times on different
> machines (my personal 
> workstation at our office and an FTP server I run). God be
> my witness I 
> honestly wanted to stick with Source Mage but I failed to.
> Each time I 
> performed sorcery rebuild after fresh install it failed
> which was pretty 
> frustrating. Again, I didn't have enough spare time to
> tackle the issues so I 
> had to find some other distro.

I'm curious what are you rebuilding when you do a sorcery rebuild. I mean, do 
you recompile the spells from the install CD, or the packages from another 
build ?
It would be a lot easier if you backup your spell configuration (maybe even 
the cache packages) from a SMGL install that you have polished & tuned to 
your taste. In that way a reinstall (even on other machines) will be 
effortless and sorcery rebuild will fail very rarely (if it does at all).
If you like to do a lot of installs, you can make a tarball of your system (a 
stripped version, of course, so it won't be too big) and put it in the 
official iso. Now you have an install CD/DVD with your system out of the box.
It's pointless to use the official tarball to install SMGL and do rebuilding, 
install more spells and configure the whole thing every time (unless you aim 
to test the install process thoroughly).
Debian released live systems with Lenny (at last), which are pure Debian so 
you can create a live cd/usb which is exact copy of you system and have an 
installer too. I find it extremely useful, effort and time saving.
You can do that with SMGL, but it's a bit harder.