Quoting Todd <Freedom_Lover@xxxxxxxxx>: > Sorry to only respond to one small part of this thread, I know there's > a lot of other things being discussed here. But just to point out > that since yum configs are version independent, it's not necessary to > say "Installing and using yum for Fedora Legacy with Red Hat Linux > 7.2." You can simply say "Installing and using yum for Fedora > Legacy," can't you? Yum configs are not independent (yum1 versus yum2) and the install directions are different for different OS versions. So, no. > If a potential user can't or won't do a little thinking on their own > and pick the proper version for their RH system, how much more hand > holding can a few volunteers here do? As much as is needed. > The instructions on that page would tell you to grab yum for your RH > version from download.fedoralegacy.org and then how to issue the > commands to make it automatically update. You've left out some steps. > I suppose that technically, if someone wanted to, a shell script could > be written that would go out and grab the latest yum and configure it > for the user, sort of like what Ximian used to do (and still does, now > that I look) with their gnome releases. See an example here: > > http://www.ximian.com/products/desktop/download.html We can't even get the apt package QA tested, so there is little hope at this stage we can get a custom installer written, tested, and documented. > It seems to me that most -- if not all -- of the required info is > already on the site thanks to Eric and Jonas (and all those who > contributed ideas or other documentation). But maybe I've not been > following this thread closely enough to understand exactly what > changes are being suggested. Mostly it is about organization, but there has been some missing content from time to time (like FAQ entries). > If so, sorry for the interruption, I'll > go back to lurking and *trying* to make some time to do QA on those > apt packages... Yes, please try to find some time for those QA duties ;) We really need to get more people doing QA testing. -- Eric Rostetter
