[Foresight-distro] Re: Just got started with foresight, Have some questions

[Ken VanDine]

Good point smithj... what he said :-D

On 7/29/07, Jonathan Smith <smithj at foresightlinux.org> wrote:
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> Ken VanDine wrote:
> > It would certainly be very easy to start by shadowing our group-dist
> > and start to modify things a little.  Quite a few people maintain
> > their own foresight groups just so they can use "migrate".
> >
> > So step one shadow our group (which defines the distro) and tweak it
> > just a little.  Like change the default apps a little.  Then cook that
> > group and update to it.  Hope onto IRC and we would be happy to walk
> > you through that.
> >
>
> no! NO NONO! bad kenvandine! ;-)
>
> step one: create your own group-dist and r.addAll('group-dist',
> 'foresight.rpath.org at fl:1', flatten=True)
>
> step two: modify from there
>
> this has two benifits. first, it *vastly* reduces cook time. it takes about 45
> minutes to cook foresight groups. it takes me 1-2 to cook my foresight-derived
> groups. secondly, it is more consistent. for example, if someone commits a
> broken package to fl:1, you're not suck with it.
>
>         smithj
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Ken VanDine
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