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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:50 PM, 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.

Hmm, personally I'd prefer a plain-text dump. links -dump gives really
nice output