Re: Documentation: Explaining "porterbox" better
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> * Make section "4.4.6. chroots to different distributions" be 4.4.1,
> since the existence and use of porterboxes is probably something fewer
> people are familiar with
That entire section looks horribly out of date anyway. I find the
promise of backing up user data particularly dangerous. Or funny. And
people isn't in the US anyway.
> * rename it from "chroots to different distributions" to "porterboxes
> provide chroots to different distributions"
It doesn't provide different distributions at all. All it does is
debian. We usually have different suites of that tho.
> * link to http://dsa.debian.org/doc/install-req/ and explain why people
> might want to install packages in a chroot
erm. what's there to explain.
> * https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi will be changed so that, above the
> "summary", this text appears: "Read more about the Debian Machines in the
> Developer's Reference." It will link to
> http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/resources.html#server-machines
Should the dev-ref ever be less wrong I won't mind adding a link to it.
> By doing that, we define the term "porterbox", too, which is nice.
Cheers,
weasel
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