On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Arto Astala wrote: > Hi! > > I mailed with Christian Schwarz some time ago about doing > the rel notes. (Betcha you thought about another disappearing > person, Christian.)
(No. I know that writing such manuals takes some time :-) > Well, here are my first attempts to that direction. I will tag contents > at the end of this mail and, if you are interested mail some of the > introductory stuff separately. It is getting rather large, even tho' it > does not yet really tell enything. Wow! I'm really impressed! We really need such a document, especially for Debian 2.0 since I expect that lots of people might want to have some additional docs when trying the libc5 -> libc6 upgrade :) > Please comment. After two or three days I will announce this > on debian-devel. > > Christian, or somebody, is there somewhere a corner of > web space I could use for this? My employer, the advanced > high-tech Nokia Telecom does not offer world visible > web space for its employers (that I know of). I've just put the TOC on our DDP home page: http://www.painters.schwarz-online.com/~schwarz/debian-doc/release-notes.html If you want to publish the full document (which would be nice, of course :) you can either send it to me via email and I'll put it on the web page or you might want to put it on master: AFAIK, it's possible to create a public_html/ directory in your home directory on master and use the URL http://master.debian.org/~<your-login>/ But since this hasn't been done before, I'd suggest you get in touch with our webmasters and ask for permission. To the contents: It would be nice if you could include the following info in the release manual document. (I'm not sure if you already thought of these topics. If so, just ignore them here.) 1. /usr/src is owned by Debian, local sources (such as the kernel sources) should go into /usr/local/src. (This is especially important since the kernel-headers or kernel-sources packages are required by libc6-dev and these install into /usr/src.) 2. people should use "kernel-package" if they want to create their own kernels. 3. short intro to FSSTND: /usr/local is for local additions, /opt is for third parties, everything else is owned by Debian. (Of course, this is only meant as an suggestion for the admin to avoid any conflicts with our packages.) 4. app-defaults are not conffiles, /etc/X11/Xresources should be used instead 5. explanation how `alternatives' work 6. role of /etc/crontab, /etc/cron.{daily,hourly,monthly,d}, crontabs 7. role of /etc/init.d, /etc/rc?.d Note, that all these points are from my list what I wanted to get into a `Debian System Administrator's Manual' so I'm not sure the Release Notes is the right manual. However, since we don't have this manual yet, we might want to make the Release Notes document a little more detailed and then start moving sections in the admin's manual afterwards. What do you think?? Thanks a lot for your work on this! Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.debian.org http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
