Hi,
On Monday 19 February 2007 19:08:56 yokoy wrote:
> > > Apropos stupid questions:
> > > What is the easiest way to update the whole system in a way we are used
> > > on debian, gentoo or others? I did not find it in mine/gasgui nor in the
> > > t2-handbook. Ah, well, I find some things, but not a way that helps or
> > > satisfy me. Give me a hint, please.
> > > Is the config file /etc/rocket.conf still in use? Which GEM archives
> > > shold be in there?
> >
> > Inside the (t2-6.0 branch checkout) with Emerge-Pkg
>
> Mine or gasgui don't habe the features to update the system, right? It is
"mine" can update the system if you have a set of binary packages, e.g.
from an install CD. But I guess this usually is not the case.
(gasgui is just a mine UI frontend)
> necessary to checkout svn and doing it from insite the branch? It is OK, but
> I thought, I only didn't find the feature.
Yes, either checkout the branches/6.0 or grab a release tarball. With
the branches/6.0 you will receive security / bugfixes more continously.
> One open question:
> > > Is the config file /etc/rocket.conf still in use? Which GEM archives
> > > shold be in there?
> And who or what uses this file?
We inherited mine and it's (at that time functional) rocket. Mine is a whole
piece of crap. That is why the T2 community deviced to continously drop
this properitary packaging format gradually with each new release. We
have a modified mine already that works on ordinary tarballs (tar.bz2, tar.gz).
Future versions of T2 will not come with "mine" anymore at all. Rocket was
a try to extend mine/gasgui to receive binary packages from binary "gem"
pools over a network. Not even (the kind of stalled) ROCK Linux does provide
this binary gem pools. We should indeed remove the few unfunctional
rocket references.
The plan for T2 packages (aside that in theory the Build-System could
output .rpm or .deb - but no contributor did require this so far) is to use
normal tarballs so they can be comfortably be created and extraced on
any Unix-alike OS with tar included.
The mine replacement will use some widely known, and easy to remeber
pkg-add, pkg-remove (or -del) and so on naming (instead of the highly
uncomforable mine -r / -i / ... .
We will (soon, that is in the next weeks) release the first working version
fo this package manager, that will include a feature named "synchronicity"
that will allow binary updates from remote locations either using these
normal tarballs or binary diffs of those (to save network traffic).
For version beginnign with the upcomming t2-7.0 (to be release Q2/Q3
2007 (somewhen in the summer)) we will provide those "synchronicity"
binary pools for pleasant, automatic, continous, optinally end-user
notifing ("You got updates" :-) binary updates.
Yours,
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René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name
+49 (0)30 / 255 897 45
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