Suggestion for a new Download page

Jason rohwedde at codegrinder.com
Thu Feb 5 20:28:06 UTC 2004


On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:19:48PM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> Quoting Todd <Freedom_Lover at pobox.com>:
> 
> > 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.
> 
The apt package is set up to configure itself upon the first invocation
based on the mirror list on the fedoralegacy server.

I'll write the docs if need be, but I can't QA the package I built..
well, I could.. but my publish vote wouldn't really count ;)

> > 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.

What he said.

-jason
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