Changing priorities
I finally decided to unsubscribe from most of the linux from scratch mailing lists. I liked compiling everything myself, and getting my system just the way I wanted, but in a way it's just another form of procrastinating. I learn a lot from it, and I'm keeping all my build scripts around because I expect I'll later revisit the whole idea. For now though, I seem happy with kubuntu - Dapper is on two of my machines, Breezy is on my laptop, which just leaves my server running a system built from my scripts. I think with debootstrap I should be able to install dapper into a directory and mv stuff around, giving me a new install without losing /home or having to repartition.
I took the opportunity to unsubscribe from a few other lists I've not been reading carefully too, and signed up to a couple of ubuntu related ones. I've also been reading up on debian/ubuntu packaging. I don't want my new systems to become a mess of self-installed stuff that ends up conflicting with official packages, so I'm trying to learn how to package stuff properly, and update existing packages to newer upstream revisions properly.
All the docs reminded me about GPG. So I remind you all that I have a key (1024D/C0E30222 2002-10-25 Key fingerprint = 69B0 18F8 C906 5941 A421 775A 17CE 3684 C0E3 0222, see here), which you can sign if you use GPG and believe I'm me. (I am the last time I checked.)
Oh, and jarel - I sorted out the GPG issues on igloo while I was in a GPGish mood.
I took the opportunity to unsubscribe from a few other lists I've not been reading carefully too, and signed up to a couple of ubuntu related ones. I've also been reading up on debian/ubuntu packaging. I don't want my new systems to become a mess of self-installed stuff that ends up conflicting with official packages, so I'm trying to learn how to package stuff properly, and update existing packages to newer upstream revisions properly.
All the docs reminded me about GPG. So I remind you all that I have a key (1024D/C0E30222 2002-10-25 Key fingerprint = 69B0 18F8 C906 5941 A421 775A 17CE 3684 C0E3 0222, see here), which you can sign if you use GPG and believe I'm me. (I am the last time I checked.)
Oh, and jarel - I sorted out the GPG issues on igloo while I was in a GPGish mood.