Quoting Jonas Pasche <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I really have conflicting feelings about the Download page. Fedora > Legacy isn't something to download; it is something to _use_, and the > howto-style documentation tells users how to use it. Therefore I plead > for turning the current Download page into a reference page that tells: Yes, I feel your pain. > 1) "If you are new to this stuff and don't know how to use apt/yum, > please go the documentation section. This page isn't for you." Interesting idea... (Links are there, but no language like your above language). > 2) A link to download.fedoralegacy.org, for people that simply want to > download updates manually by HTTP There, but should be more obvious... > 3) A list of full yum/apt repository configurations Not sure what that means (how it differs from the mirror list files for apt/yum on the mirrors page). > 4) A list of mirrors to use instead of download.fedoralegacy.org Is linked to from that page (as a separate mirror page). > IMHO, the download page should be used by users who already know how to > use yum/apt and just want to put the right repositories into their > configuration. Anybody who'd be not be able to do that should follow the > detailed documentation instead. Yes. But I like having the mirror page separate, if for no other reason than to make it easier to update/automate/etc. > I'd prefer not including instructions on how to download/install > yum/apt. If a user doesn't have yum/apt he should use the howto-style > documentation. The first paragraph should make this clear. Okay, I can understand that. (and it makes my life easy, so why not). > Suggestion #1: Just link the _directory_ and tell the user to download > the most current versions of yum/apt from there. Yeah, that was the kind of thing I was leaning towards. > Suggestion #2: As the pages are already written in PHP, why not include > a conf.php which ships variables like... Same problem of keeping the conf.php up to date. > AFAIK, Jesse has an eye on this. Jesse's got an eye on everything ;) > --- cut --- > > If you're using apt, please add the line that matches your distribution > to your /etc/apt/sources.list: >From what Jesse told me, I thought there was some way to do this automagically using the files he posted on the mirrors page??? > If you're using yum, please add the following blocks to your > /etc/yum.conf (these work for all supported releases of Red Hat Linux): The defaults are in our yum package, so we don't need to do this until we have mirrors, no? > If you are already using another repository for official Red Hat > packages and updates, please note the following: > > - You only need one repository providing the "os" aka "base" channel. If > you already have a repository providing it, you may want to keep only > one. The contents of this channels will never change. > > - "updates" is the channel we're using for Fedora Legacy updates. If you > already have a repository providing a Red Hat "updates" channel, make > sure that you keep only the "updates" channel from us and remove that > channel from your other repository. Your former "updates" channel only > provided Red Hat official updates. YOUR SYSTEM WILL NOT RECEIVE LEGACY > UPDATES if you're using any other repository providing only official > Red Hat updates! You have been warned. > > --- cut --- Now that info would be useful. So, Jonas: First, see the new pages I just updated. Then, help improve them with your changes above as you see fit. (See what you get for expressing an opinion? Now I expect you to do work...) > Jonas -- Eric Rostetter
