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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] newbie question
  • Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:09:53 -0800

Quoting Terry Ross <terry AT timestorm.ross.com>:
> To clarify a little more, you should use it after the initial install, since
> the ISO is set up for the lowest common denominator, using binaries for a
> generic machine. Naturally, tha is not what you picked a source based
> distribution for. So, when you install from an ISO you want to set your
> optimizations as you prefer, update the grimoires to relect the latest
> versions, and then rebuild - which just casts everything from scratch for
> your arch & with your optimizations. That's why you want to do it as soon
> as possible, because it rebuilds everything - if you've cast spells on your
> own, it will rebuild those too, even though that would be a waste of
> effort.
> So, you only do it once, and as soon as possible after installing from the
> ISO.

You'd also want to do it if later you decide to change your optimizations
(perhaps you want to add speedy now, whereas before you had it off), then
after
saving the new settings, you'd do `sorcery rebuild` to rebuild every package
installed with the new settings.

-sandalle

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