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.
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