Mod pack based on Tekkit Lite

[Mordritch]

A few friends and I have a server which is basically Tekkit Lite with a few extra mods. With the old launcher, we could select Tekkit Lite and then provide a URL to a smallish .zip file with just the few extra mods we wanted to run.

With the new launcher, it seems you have to package all the mods together in a much bigger .zip file, I can't see a way to just extend Tekkit Lite.

The only way I could work out how to do this was to tediously get the appropriate files out of the Tekkit Lite install folder, then package it with my other mods and I foresee myself having to do this every time a new Tekkit Lite update is released.

Is there any way on the Technic Platform to have it extend an existing mod package so that I don't have to manually update all the Tekkit Lite mods anytime they bring an update?

[Maxis010]

Is there any way on the Technic Platform to have it extend an existing mod package so that I don't have to manually update all the Tekkit Lite mods anytime they bring an update?

Without creating a custom pack. Nope.

And what do you mean tediously, copy 4 folders, delete all but 1 file from 1 of those folders, add your extras, run it to be sure (and get the configs generated for set-up), package it and send out the link

As for having to do this every update, unless you are trying to run Latest versions over recommended versions I don't see much of an issue

[Neowulf]

Nope.

Not like it's hard to update a copy of tekkit lite each time you decide to update your pack and snag the mod, coremods, config, and modpack.jar

[Mordritch]

Well, that answers my question, thank you for that.

And I never said it was hard, I said it was tedious

What I mean when I say it's tedious is this:

copy 4 folders, delete all but 1 file from 1 of those folders, add your extras, run it to be sure (and get the configs generated for set-up), package it and send out the link

And as someone who does software development for a living, I feel qualified to have this opinion

What would not be tedious is setting up a config file once only and from then on running a script or something which does all the packaging for me. Perhaps I will write one to do this for me :)

[Neowulf]

Have fun fixing ID conflicts when the tekkit config or your added mod configs change. That's a lot harder to do with an automated script.

And seriously? Copying some folders once every month or two is tedious?

[Mordritch]

For me, anything more than one click is tedious It starts off as just a few steps, but over time the number of steps might grow, then you maybe forget one step the one time and you have to do a backup restore or something then your 30 minutes you wanted to kill in Minecraft changes to 30 minutes of fixing problems, if I wanted to spend the evening maintaining a software product, I would have hung around at work. However, if I have a little script which I run which automates almost all the work, then I get to spend more of my time doing what I enjoy.

However, we are each entitled to our own opinions and perhaps you get more satisfaction than I do at managing such kinds of problems.

Thanks for the warning and I am aware of the potential for ID conflicts, fortunately the number of extra mods we run on top of Tekkit Lite is very limited, so I don't anticipate it being too hard to manage.