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On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 15:04, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> The GDP has received a nice contribution document which covers the upgrading |
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> part of a Gentoo installation. More importantly, it tries to document the |
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> use of profiles and when a user needs to change his profile symlink. |
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> Profiles are one of the less documented aspects of a Gentoo installation and |
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> I think such a document is really interesting. However, because it's not |
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> that documented and transparent to the user, I cannot verify validity of the |
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> document (and it's not something that can be tested as well). |
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> Can all profile experts and architectural release coordinators check the |
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> content of http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/gentoo-upgrading.html and see if it |
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> contains any falsehoods, mistruths or is missing vital information? |
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> Wkr, |
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> Sven Vermeulen |
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Very well done - especially the release philosophy bit. You hit releng's |
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main function right on the nose. |
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The content is very good, and the only problem that I could find is the |
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lack of a heading for the supported profiles table. Could you perhaps |
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add in some <th>'s so that the users know what they are looking at in |
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those columns? |
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Cheers, |
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John Davis |
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