Suggestion for a new Download page

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Jonas Pasche <mail at jonaspasche.de>:

> Regarding "Download":
>
> After Raphael's feedback I'd still suggest to include the "Is this the
> right place for you?" section of my proposal right on the top of the
> page. Maybe you are able to find a better title for it.

Yes, I'll look into this.  Didn't have time today to digest your page...

> I appreciate that you mention that apt/yum configuration can be found on
> the mirrors page, but I would give this part a bit more strength, maybe
> a separate subsection under "Installing packages".

It is a trade off.  If we do that, we remove the encouragement to use our
apt/yum packages...  I'll see what I can do to make a decent compromise.

> There's a broken link where you link to the Mirrors page - it's
> "/download/mirrors.php", not "/downloads/mirrors.php".

Fixed in cvs

> Regarding "Documentation":
>
> For me it is absolutely enough that you created "Getting started..." and
> "Getting involved..." sections. Should be enough for now. Good idea!

Okay.  We can add more sections as we get more docs...

> Regarding "Mirrors":
>
> The warnings about the "updates" channel repository mixing problem
> should be placed below the configuration files because they apply to apt
> as well as to yum.

Actually, I was told yum would use multiple channels as 'fail-over' channels
in the case a server was down, and would use them in the order provided
in the config file.  Is this not true, or am I missing the point, or what?

I do understand we would want ours first if not the only entries for base/os
channels, but I'm curious about the working, etc.

> I would chose small caps for YUM and APT.

Done in cvs.

> I still vote for copy+paste entries for apt's sources list ;-)
> (the yum configuration file is just fine). The entries of the

These are files done by Jesse, so you need to take it up with him.
Only way I would go against him would be to add two files (one copy+paste
version, and the other Jesse's version).

> mirrors.list file cannot be used through copy+paste; one has to delete
> the commentary and has to prefix the repository lines with "rpm ".

I know nothing about that, as I don't know how to configure apt.  So to
provide such a thing, I'd need the info (files) provided to me.

> If mirrors become available, what about providing a link to the
> mirror-select.lua script, telling the users how to include it into their
> configuration?

I assume this is either in the FL apt packages, or that Jesse will provide
it somehow.  Jesse will have to clairify that.

> linked from the Mirrors page. I expect the lua script to be included in
> our own apt packages, or isn't it..?

Don't know...

> We should make clear the state of the entries that currently have a
> state of "unknown". Anybody on the list, please help bringing the task
> list up to date!

Yes, including adding tasks we forgot about.

> What about adding the names of the people who volunteered being
> responsible for a specific task?

I thought about that, and am willing to do so, as long as the people involved
are okay with it.  I was thinking maybe just first names for now?  (If we
hit an duplicate first name, add a last initial or something).

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Eric Rostetter