Re: broken links in the woody install documentation

2002-03-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:09:07AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: I've fixed a number of broken links in latest CVS. i386 was referring to a wrong flavor. You have some note on other arches having bad flavors too, I'll check that out this weekend

Re: woody install manual and www.d.o/releases/woody/

2001-11-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:17:57AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: However, the potato version isn't, it seems :( Please see /org/www.debian.org/bf/potato/boot-floppies/make.log I checked for conflicts this time :) and didn't find any. That's so

Re: woody install manual and www.d.o/releases/woody/

2001-11-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
the latest from the potato branch on klecker, no problems. -- ...Adam Di Carlo..[EMAIL PROTECTED]...URL:http://www.onshored.com/

Re: woody install manual and www.d.o/releases/woody/

2001-11-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not for me :( Please look at /org/www.debian.org/bf/woody/boot-floppies/make.log on klecker. You have a CVS conflict in your local documentation/defaults.ent . Please make sure you are fully in sync with the CVS head and try again. -- ...Adam Di Carlo

Re: woody install manual and www.d.o/releases/woody/

2001-11-19 Thread Adam Di Carlo
fixed some problems. -- ...Adam Di Carlo..[EMAIL PROTECTED]...URL:http://www.onshored.com/

woody install manual and www.d.o/releases/woody/

2001-11-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
links to all the versions of the documentation. Can anyone get that? I _could_ do it (after the manuals are put in place) but I'm a bit busy with boot-floppies maintenance. -- ...Adam Di Carlo..[EMAIL PROTECTED]...URL:http://www.onshored.com/

Bug#114348: www.debian.org: some items in the site map appearing in the wrong language

2001-10-04 Thread Adam Di Carlo
. -- ...Adam Di Carlo..[EMAIL PROTECTED]...URL:http://www.onshored.com/

Bug#114348: www.debian.org: some items in the site map appearing in the wrong language

2001-10-03 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Package: www.debian.org Version: N/A; reported 2001-10-03 Severity: normal When I bring up URL:http://www.debian.org/sitemap I see a few titles appearing in the wrong lanuage: Kontak Sumbangan ke Software in the Public Interest Cari Arsip milis debian-user ... (more Arsip milis) Bug

Bug#99196: searching list archives doesn't work

2001-05-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Package: listarchives Version: N/A; reported 2001-05-29 Severity: important From URL:http://lists.debian.org/search.html, doing any search results in a page that tells me: You have to search for something! Bad search system! It seems really broken, in that list searching doesn't work at all,

Re: slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support

2001-03-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please note that the patched slang1 is not binary compatible with the unpatched slang1. Making it binary compatible would be a horrible hack as the slang API exposes the internal representation of the contents of a screen cell as a 32-bit word.

slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support

2001-03-27 Thread Adam Di Carlo
We need wide character support in slang for the boot-floppies so that the install program can display wide characters, such as Japanese or Chinese (Big5 *and* GB2312 encoding). I have a patch from the boot-floppies archives to give slang wide character support. I've attached that patch. I need

Re: [paul@miraclefish.com: Missing page on debian.org?]

2001-02-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/cfdisk.txt is blank (and referenced as required reading for 1st time installers:( The problem was using a sparc util-linux which doens't have that file. Fixed. I've updated www-master with a new version. Could

new install manual/release notes propogated to master

2000-09-16 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I've uploaded updated Release Notes and Installation Manual for Potato to master.d.o. The main feature here is updates, especially in the French, Croatian, Polish, and Czech translations. I've had to disable the Russian PDF since it won't run for me anymore. I'd appreciate any testing of bad

Re: stop sending spam

2000-09-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://bugs.debian.org/spam revealed that you seem to be the only person who knows of such method of reporting spam :-) Well, look at archived/closed bugs. Other people have used this. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/

Re: potato release notes missing

2000-08-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 04:27:14PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: I disagree, it's useful, having directories without index.html is bad. I deny it is actually useful. All of its information is more completely and clearly stated at http

Re: Bad links in the install documents on the website

2000-08-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As one of the webmasters for the Debian web site, I run a urlchecker over the site. There are a lot of broken links in the install documentation. It is not a priority to fix the broken links for previous releases, but the ones for potato should be

Re: Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, there's a problem with the textual files. There are no release-notes.*.txt files for languages other than English on master under /org/www.debian.org/debian.org/releases/slink, for some reason. The English ones were placed in a different location

Bug#61702: german installation instrauctions not for sparc but x86

2000-04-06 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ingo Saitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The german instructions on http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/#new-inst always point to installation instructions for x86 architecture, even if you select another architecture. Um, yes, well, that's because the German translation is old and

Re: [Adam Di Carlo adam@onshore.com] [RFC] DDP and www.debian.org merger

2000-03-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Umm.. I know this is not that much integrated into wml but.. ¿have you looked at the perl script made by Paolo Molaro, and modified by Christophe Le Bars and myself? (the spanish version is in w.d.o/international/spanish). The idea of this is to have a Perl database (using hash

Re: [Adam Di Carlo adam@onshore.com] [RFC] DDP and www.debian.org merger

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The index page for DDP documents needs to be implemented with a bit of WML magic, with .wml and .wmh files. From what I managed to observe in the last half an hour or so, all we need is some modification of

Re: `boot-floppies' documentation naming conventions?

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll try pointing the urlchecker at http://www.debian.org/releases/potato and see what happens. Oh, I don't have the documentation up there yet. I was asking more about the slink stuff. You were saying you'd go thru that ... It would help me not to

Re: More about 'releases'

2000-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You are speaking specifically of the releases pages. That involves only the boot floppies people. I was being more general. There are docs, such as the FAQ, which we have on the web. We receive complaints about the docs and sending them to debian-doc

[Adam Di Carlo adam@onshore.com] [RFC] DDP and www.debian.org merger

2000-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Here's a reposting of my thoughts regarding smoother DDP/www.debian.org integration. I am currently soliciting volunteers who know SGML/CVS/Make/WML to help with this integration. ---BeginMessage--- The following is my plan on why and how to merge the DDP area with www.debian.org,

Re: Available Documentation in the Debian's WWW/FTP mirrors/CDs

2000-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well.. I could but since the last I have checked there has been no talk whatsoever since last year on this topic. Debian-doc is not such a 'light' Mailing list. I have, however, gone through all the information of the last two

Re: `boot-floppies' documentation naming conventions?

2000-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The current state is that translations are relying on the existance of www.es.debian.org and www.br.debian.org, both of which are not very reliable. In fact, neither is currently accessable. This isn't very robust. Well, lets just have it all point

Bug#61107: releases/ symlink changes needed

2000-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Package: www.debian.org Version: 25-Mar-2000 Severity: important I don't have permissions, so the following commands should be run in /debian2/web/debian.org/releases: rm unstable # old symlink ln -s potato frozen ln -s potato 2.2 ln -s woody unstable Corresponding changes

Re: [Adam Di Carlo adam@onshore.com] [RFC] DDP and www.debian.org merger

2000-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Since we've talked about this in IRC, I assume I've answered your questions. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/

Re: `boot-floppies' documentation naming conventions?

2000-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Where is the install doc source for slink? I'd like to get rid of as many of the broken links in it as possible. If the install docs aren't going to be updated ever again, I could simply make the changes in the current .html. Don't do that. Oh, Ick. Use the included CVS instructions. Use the

Re: `boot-floppies' documentation naming conventions?

2000-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
The current state is that translations are relying on the existance of www.es.debian.org and www.br.debian.org, both of which are not very reliable. In fact, neither is currently accessable. This isn't very robust. Well, lets just have it all point, for web pages, to www.debian.org. Go ahead and

Re: `boot-floppies' documentation naming conventions?

2000-03-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On a related note, is boot-floppies responsible for the files in releases/{slink,potato}/? There are a number of problems with links there and I need to know who to forward problems/bugs to (and there are currently a LOT of broken links). If I had

Re: `boot-floppies' documentation naming conventions?

2000-03-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ah. Finnally someone said something concrete about this. :) So all the boot-floppies does to the web pages is generate the installation manual, dselect tutorial, and the release notes, and put it in the right place. Right? Right. .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/

Raul's banners etc

2000-02-07 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[Thought I had sent this before] Someone might take a look at URL:http://devel.onShore.com/gnu_art/ and see if we wanna grab some of this for the logos page or for use as banners. Also, Raul was asking me what license he should put the images under. Is GPL appropriate? Or is just Public

Bug#50249: Wrong logo images

1999-11-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The version at the URL I mentioned: http://www.hands.com/~phil/debian/logo/ has been tidied up, without actually affecting the postscript code. Raul should probably be made aware of this. Ok -- I've made him aware (forwarded his message).

Re: Debian-List HOWTO

1999-11-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any place on the web site for documents like this? I know we have a couple already and we really should have more (like something about GnuPG) I have proposed an integration of the DDP (which collects status and pointers to Debian

Re: Suggestion: Man Pages on Web Install Disks

1999-10-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin Brederlow wrote: Ken Hendrickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Suggestions for Improvement: * Put complete man pages for every package on www.Debian.org. o (Note that OpenBSD does this.) * Put complete /usr/doc and

search engine to web pages? Re: no link to the y2k page?

1999-10-19 Thread Adam Di Carlo
This apparently got buried in the thread but it's important... Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On a related note: Cistron (the people hosting www.nl.debian.org) appears to be willing to setup a searchengine for the website. Is there any interest in this? I think this would be

[RFC] DDP and www.debian.org merger

1999-10-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
The following is my plan on why and how to merge the DDP area with www.debian.org, specifically, the Debian WML CVS area. Comments are appreciated. Overview: * merge DDP web pages with Debian WML CVS area, devel/ddp * retain existing manual sources in DDP CVS area * setup autobuild of

Bug#46799: add makedev to notes on running slink with kernel 2.2.x

1999-10-06 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raj Manandhar) writes: So the bottom line is: one needs a newer makedev. The current stable one works, for example. Perhaps there are similar problems for other packages that made it onto older slink CDs, too, so it might be a good idea to add the FTP site to

Re: web site license

1999-10-03 Thread Adam Di Carlo
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 02:40:09PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: I'd rather we took advantage of DFSG point #4 and added something like: You may change this document, but all derived works must state that they are not part of the Debian web site.

Re: Help fix bad links in the web pages

1999-10-03 Thread Adam Di Carlo
It would be nice if there was a stable, unchanging link which always showed current bad links, i.e., redone nightly right after the WML update. Is this possible? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/

Re: Bad links in the install docs

1999-09-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are a number of files missing from the releases/ directory which are causing links to fail. The list which follows is quite long, but it looks like a lot of them are related so a few changes should get rid of most of them: Yes, it's a comedy

Re: document matrix generation in releases/slink/

1999-09-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any objection to the following change? It simply makes sure that the files exist so we don't have broken links. Seems ok to me... go for it. Thanks James. + @cur_dir = split('/', '$(WML_SRC_DIRNAME)'); + $release = pop @cur_dir; foreach

Re: document matrix generation in releases/slink/

1999-09-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 12:59:02PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: No offense, but slice sucks. Why? I dunno -- why use it when you could just switch on the current language in Perl itself? The code is Perl. Mixing two languages in this case

Re: new developer's corner

1999-09-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks like we can move this over to db.debian.org where it will be much more usefull with quite broad search capabilities. Hopefully by next week. Does this have secure login yet? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/

Re: new developer's corner

1999-09-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We can remove the link to the Japanese version of the policy manual as it can be (is?) linked from the Japanese version of the page. Of course, the policy manual should be available in multiple langs using content negotiation alongside the english

document matrix generation in releases/slink/

1999-09-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
In www.debian.org/releases/slink/ you will now see a nice document matrix. This lists all the translations and formats for the various versions of the Install Manual. The tables are dynamically generated by a little Perl procedure: permute_as_matrix('install', 'english', 'croatian',

Re: For the Abolishment of Ports

1999-09-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Writing perl is not the problem. Ideally, all the 'ports' would be in sync so a single page could be used for every package. As it stands, there is too much version skew to allow this without making the pages overly large and complicated. Disagree? I

new logo announcement

1999-07-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Debian hasn't yet made any official announcement about the new logo. Nor has onShore (who paid for Raul's time to make the logo). We at least would like to make a press release about the new logo, and we were wonder if perhaps we could make a shared press release, or else if Debian would like to

Re: bug while downloading 'linux' with netscape.

1999-07-01 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there, Hi Jon. Sorry, I didn't read this for a while. I missed your message somehow. I just thought I'd inform you that the 'linux' file from the page: http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html does not download

Re: link to devel/release_info

1999-03-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
James == James A Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James The link to devel/release_notes has been deleted from the main James web page. devel/release_notes provides information that is James frequently requested; primarily what version of the kernel and James X are included in the next (or