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[arch-releng] translations of official installation guide
by Dieter Plaetinck 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

We have discussed how we could handle translations of the official guide a while back. See http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2009-August/000656.html We discussed several approaches with pros and cons, we explained why translations cannot be "official" (the most important one being they cannot be guaranteed to be up to date), etc. but we never clearly defined our policy. So that's what I will do now. * Any guide actively supervised by an arch-releng member can be called "official". At this point, this means only the english version @ http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide * Translations are welcome. You can host them on the arch wiki, or on a local community wiki (like archlinux.de). But they cannot be called "official". So at the top put "Arch Linux installation guide" and mention that it's a translation of http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide * I will add a section on the official arch guide called "Community translations" or something like that, where I can link to your translations. I know mediawiki supports something like an "i18n section" where you can link to translations but I don't really know how it works. Can I put as title "community translations" and can i make it link to external websites? * I will put this policy in a more visible place. (probably in the aif git repo and link to it from the guide) Dieter

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[arch-releng] [PATCH] Add optional command line parameter: archisobasedir
by Thomas Bächler 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

When remastering the image onto a USB volume, you might want to reuse an existing partition without filling the root with lots of archiso files. The archisobasedir parameter allows to specify a new root directory, isomounts and all images will be searched in this directory. --- What do you think of this? I am planning to include scripts on the ISO to easily put the image onto an existing vfat partition on USB without entirely deleting it. This will help to put it into a subdirectory instead of the root. archiso/hooks/archiso | 12 ++++++++---- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/archiso/hooks/archiso b/archiso/hooks/archiso index e1ad81a..d979ef4 100644 --- a/archiso/hooks/archiso +++ b/archiso/hooks/archiso @@ -54,10 +54,14 @@ run_hook () { tmpfs_sqfs_size="75%" fi + if [ "x${archisobasedir}" != "x" ]; then + archisobasedir="" + fi + if [ "x${isomounts}" != "x" ]; then isomounts="/bootmnt/${isomounts}" else - isomounts="/bootmnt/isomounts" + isomounts="/bootmnt/${archisobasedir}/isomounts" fi if [ "x${archisodevice}" = "x" ]; then @@ -128,12 +132,12 @@ archiso_mount_handler() { [ "$imgarch" != "$arch" ] && continue - [ ! -r "/bootmnt/${img}" ] && continue + [ ! -r "/bootmnt/${archisobasedir}/${img}" ] && continue if [ "${type}" = "bind" ]; then - _mnt_bind "/bootmnt/${img}" "${newroot}${mountpoint}" + _mnt_bind "/bootmnt/${archisobasedir}/${img}" "${newroot}${mountpoint}" elif [ "${type}" = "squashfs" ]; then - _mnt_squashfs "/bootmnt/${img}" "${newroot}${mountpoint}" + _mnt_squashfs "/bootmnt/${archisobasedir}/${img}" "${newroot}${mountpoint}" fi done < "${isomounts}" -- 1.7.1

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Re: [arch-releng] translations of official installation guide
by Dieter Plaetinck 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:04:41 +0200 Matthias Gorissen <matthias(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > Is there any active arch-releng member, beside Dieter? This would > pretty much mean to restrict "official" docu to languages he knows - > which doesn't makes sense to me. no. and why doesn't it make sense to you? > If you put it under "community translations", a simple trick like > [[https://wiki.archlinux.de/title/Offizielle_Arch_Linux_Installations-Anleitu…]] > should work. No i18n specific thingies? Dieter

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