Fwd: Re: [Rule-list] breaking the applist out of slinky boot disk

[Devon]

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Subject: Re: [Rule-list] breaking the applist out of slinky boot disk
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:35:38 -0500
From: Devon <address@hidden>
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On Tuesday 19 March 2002 12:05 pm, James wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong ..... and often I am.  But this would also make
> slinky/miniconda cross distro as well wouldn't it? (I percieve this as
> good.)

The format of the files is such that it is already not distro specific.
For example, the current installer should now work with Red Hat 7.0 (for
example) disks as well. Or a disk full of rawhide packages, for that
matter. I've changed the entries in the package files to include only the
base names of the packages. As long as you have enough of the packages
(by the same basename) to build a working system, you can install about
anything. (provided it is an rpm based distro, of course.) Packages for
which no match is found will be skipped.

James, what is it that your waiting for from me so that you can try
slinky on your laptop? I've forgotten what prevented you from booting.
The lack of loadable modules, I assume?

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