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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] Update Options . . .
  • Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:30:34 +0000

Quoting Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>:
> That's what I'm hoping! :-) There is one downside to this, I need to build
> for the lowest common denominator hardware. I'm going to be using i686 for
> my first network install next weekend (assuming everything goes right this
> week). It does however allow me to reap all of the other benefits of a
> source based distro, with some added control. I can mix and match spells
> from various grimoires. Running a 'binery update' propagates all updates
> into the binary grimoire.
>
> It could even be useful in the normal installation process. A binary
> grimoire could be created and included on the iso which the intial
> binaries are installed from. Only sorcery, tar, bzip and some other basic
> sorcery requirements should be necessary for casting spells from the
> binary grimoire. This would make selectively installing things like
> rp-pppoe, ppp, *fsprogs, pcmcia_cs, etc trivial.
>
> Back to work...
>
> -casey

Actually, while you're in there you may want to check out an enhancement bug I
filed for Sorcery: http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4534

-sandalle

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