[arch-releng] BeginnersGuide (WAS: RC1 ISOs and final release)

Smartboy smartboyathome at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 15:42:55 EST 2009


On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 01:10:53PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:06:11PM +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> > >> On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 12:02:14 +0100
> > >> Gerhard Brauer <gerbra at archlinux.de> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> > The installer has a ASCII version of the whole text from wiki.
> > >> > The part with yaourt comes in the APPENDIX section of the wiki page,
> > >> > but the ASCII version parses the whole guide.
> > >> > I would say: We should parse only the main wiki page of
> > >> > BeginnersGuide, without the Appendix.
> > >>
> > >> I think this would be a workaround, and not a solution for the "real"
> > >> problem
> > >
> > > Not really. The Appendix used to be part of that main wiki page, but it
> > > was moved. Even the current appendix is a bit more agnostic about
> > > installing an 'AUR Helper'. The docs on the ISO just need to be updated
> > > to reflect what's currently on the wiki.
> >
> > Loui, would you be able to generate a dump of the beginner's guide? Do
> > you think that's a decent solution?
>
> Yeah that would be a good solution. Would it be OK to include it as
> html? Elinks is on the iso, so people will still be able to view it.
>

That sounds good. Just make sure to include wireless in one of the
guides as well, as it is always missing on the CD.

Smartboy


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