[haiku] Re: Wallpaper for Haiku, fork of 'Slogan for Haiku.'

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 21:10:41 +0200

Le 5 oct. 2010 à 17:14, Stephan Assmus a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> Am 05.10.2010 17:02, schrieb Alexander von Gluck IV:
>> Here are my first steps when I reinstall a nightly:
>> 
>>  * installoptionalpackage -l
>>  * installoptionalpackage -a vim
>>  * installoptionalpackage -a webpositive
>>  * installoptionalpackage -a git
>>  * pull a purtty wallpaper off a flash drive
> 
> You misunderstand the purpose of the nightlies. If you are a regular user, 
> you should install from a different source. For example by building your own 
> images, or by installing a nightly on top of your installation. Which would 
> keep existing packages and wallpapers intact.
> 
> One purpose of the nightlies is to find revisions when regressions were 
> introduced. Which is why they should be as small as possible, so there can 
> remain more of them on the server.
> 
> If I would install from a nightly, I would have to install many more packages 
> besides git and WebPositive. And a wallpaper would be the least of my 
> worries... :-)

Well it's what I do on my athlon those days as I'm too lazy to make room enough 
to build on the box, so I wrote my own bootstrap script that works on ZETA also 
(apart the makebootable call):
http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/3rdparty/mmu_man/scripts/bootstrap-haiku.sh

François.

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