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Re: Debian install documentation



>I had to change DESTEXT=en_US from just "en" in order to get the b-f
>documentation to install correctly.  Am I doing something wrong there?
>Some output files only have -en instead of -en_US which is a little
>confusing.  Seems like everything should be output with an en_US ext.

I fixed this properly in the slink branch... I'll merge that over to
the trunk.  We don't want DESTEXT to be like that...

>Also, what is the general plan/idea for naming documentation on the
>official site?  I'm planning to do a new PowerPC boot-floppies update
>and want to get the documentation up there even if it is not yet
>correct (since building CD's and such relies on the docs).  Anyway,
>should we just have the en_US docs there and should the names reflect
>the language?  i.e. Should it be install-en_US.html or munged to be
>install.html? 

Neither -- it's install.en.html.

> I'm guessing that others will do custom builds in
>their languages but wasn't sure where those docs will reside...I
>figure the en_US would just be the default on the mirror.

They reside on www.debian.org/releases/{slink,potato}, with
the following structure, for instance:

<apharris@arroz:arch> ls -lR i386/install.*
-rw-r--r--   1 apharris apharris     9527 Oct  9 13:57 i386/install.cs.html
-rw-r--r--   1 apharris apharris     9580 Oct  9 14:12 i386/install.de.html
-rw-r--r--   1 apharris apharris     9533 Oct  9 13:44 i386/install.en.html
-rw-r--r--   1 apharris apharris     9612 Oct  9 14:25 i386/install.es.html
-rw-r--r--   1 apharris apharris    10060 Oct  9 15:49 i386/install.fi.html
-rw-r--r--   1 apharris apharris     9604 Oct  9 14:54 i386/install.fr.html
-rw-r--r--   1 apharris apharris     9628 Oct  9 15:10 i386/install.hr.html
lrwxrwxrwx   1 apharris apharris       15 Oct  9 15:51 i386/install.html -> install.en.html
-rw-r--r--   1 apharris apharris   276666 Oct  9 15:50 i386/install.pdf
-rw-r--r--   1 apharris apharris     9584 Oct  9 15:25 i386/install.pt.html
-rw-r--r--   1 apharris apharris     9591 Oct  9 15:41 i386/install.ru.html
-rw-r--r--   1 apharris apharris   148525 Oct  9 15:49 i386/install.txt


These are complete documents of all architectures and all languages,
all formats, a total of about 3.5 hours of processing on my Ultra5,
producing 957 files and and 88 symlinks.

'make all-lang-arch-docs' produces what I push up to the web site.
Pushing stuff up to the web site is one of my jobs.

One difference I need to make is that the web versions of the
documentation need to point to files on an official location, not
files in the current dir (as I did in releases/slink, but which is
bloating www.debian.org and is hard to maintain).

.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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