Re: [MiNT] AtariForge

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 17:56 -0400, Mark Duckworth wrote:
> The path that I would like everything to follow is very soon to upgrade
> to the sparemint development site at http://dev.sparemint.org...  The IP
> on here is wrong, I have to chat with Rob about getting it updated ;)
> Just add that to your hosts file and set the IP to 66.92.233.10 and the
> site should load properly.  Basically a yum/up2date style automatic
> updater/net installation client.  The server side has a lot of code and
> maintains a database of packages ...  The rationale for me is twofold:
> 
> 1. sparemint cannot support multiple repositories right now so having a
> 68060 or a gcc3 specific sparemint distribution is out of the question
> without losing what you have now.
> 2. sparemint does not maintain archives of all the older packages which
> I also think is important in case there's bugs - the Sparemint Update
> Manager client will be able to upgrade or downgrade packages at will.
> Things will be more idea once we have a dynamic library linking system
> setup.

Now that's nice. Thanks for that Mark.

Alan.