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

[Nick Marshall]

Guys, I have a home network, and some relatives' computers that I
admin for.. I want to have a recover CD for them.. something that will
reset there PC. But that not on the table right now.

Right now  I want to learn how to have the same packages installed on
my desktop and laptop. I guess I could do this via package groups.

Also I want to help with Foresight Q&A, it seems that several contib
packages do not work. Monodevelop in particular. I will RTMF
submitting a proper bug report in the morning.

After reading the storm of emails, I will wait on making my own
distro, I do want to get to know how conary works, I have tryed
cooking my own stuff. Foresight should customise rpath's howtos. They
include stuff that will mess up a foresight install, I know did that
myself.

Nick

On 7/30/07, Jonathan Smith <smithj at foresightlinux.org> wrote:
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> Thilo Pfennig wrote:
> > On 7/30/07, Jonathan Smith <smithj at foresightlinux.org> wrote:
> >
> >>> Well, I would not suggest to BEGIN with that.
> >> That is what conary is explicitly designed to support. There's no reason he
> >> shouldn't start there if that is his end goal.
> > Well sure, but iss nicer if you know conary and Foresight before you
> > make a distro of your own. Sure its possible - but if you havent
> > looked at conary before I would not suggest to start with that. Even
> > if conary makes such things more easy I would not see this as a
> > trivial task. Its much easier to add packages of your own or tweak
> > some packages at first. This is what I think 95% of the people want.
>
> I'd agree. But apparently that isn't what *he* wants :)
>
> > And even he or others are successful an making a distro of their own
> > it is questionable if it wouldn't be easier if one could just make a
> > conary updateall and get all those changes.
>
> Thats just not true. The group-resolution code is vastly different from the
> update code. And, for many purposes, it leads to a much happier life when
> maintaining a desktop system (I do this, and I know at least 2 others who do so
> as well).
>
> For reference, the entire group is really simple. Take a look for yourself:
> http://tinyurl.com/3aza9k
>
>         smithj
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