Hello again,

Ok If I am understanding the handbook correctly, you use Rock to build a distro from sources into binaries, which can be used to install on another machine via nfs or whatever or burn cds from the packages to install on other computers.

I can not see anywhere, where you can install the distro you just built onto the machine you built it on apart from creating iso's and using these to install the new distro ????

I must misunderstand this bit, as Rock compares itself with Gentoo and on Gentoo this is not necessary.

Please can these questions be answered thank you.

Once the distro is built and installed on the machine how are updates made ??? are they built from sources ?

When it says binary packages, is this in the sense of a package like .deb or .rpm ..tgz or whatever they use, and if so does this not defeat the object of building from sources to avoid dependency hell ?

if neither of the above how are the binaries installed from the burned iso's. ( not wishing to copy them to the relevant directories by hand )

I am really wanting to try this distro as an alternative to Gentoo, as I believe looking at the dates Rock was possibly the first sources based distro before Gentoo or SMGL or SGL or Lunar ?

Thanks for the help in advance

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