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

[Paul Cutler]

Nick, glad to have you as a Foresight user!  This is some great
feedback, please keep it coming.

If you get a chance, and keep a list in Tomboy, I'd love to see which
rPath howto's you've come across that you would like to see customized
for Foresight.  I'm all about plagiarism and would be happy to add
them to my to-do list and get them on the Foresight wiki.

Feel free to drop me an email, list them out on the Foresight wiki, or
post to the list.

Thanks!

Paul

On 7/30/07, Nick Marshall <nmarshall23 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
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