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Re: Bug#849703: ITP: ansible-doc -- Documentation for Ansible




Hi Evgeni,

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 10:44:50PM +0100, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 12:58:02AM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
> > documentation. This package aims to supply the documentation in HTML
> > form offline, so one should not need to go to the aoupstream website to
> > read it.
> 
> Which source is this built from?
> Do you basically want a mirror of https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/ in
> a Debian package?

I am building from a git clone of the ansible repository, and, more
specifically, from the tag v2.2.0.0-1.

> > Yours truly frequently suffers under bad network conditions, which make
> > reading the website infeasible or outright impossible, so I think the
> > package is useful.
> 
> If it is more than ansible-doc <module>, then it certainly is.

My network conditions vary greatly, but too frequently, they are not
good enough to access anything on the Internet. Working on that, but
still, having a local copy of everything is very desirable from my POV.

> I just wonder whether it is sensible to built it from an own source,
> and not from the ansible source itself.

I found a very easy way to build everything from the ansible source, at
least for this tag.


Cheers,
--Toni++


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