[Yum-devel] [n] vs [m]

[Gerhardus Geldenhuis]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote:
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>> There is one link I have found so far that points to a html rendered
>> man page still on http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/ManYumConf/.
>> I did a quick google and this tool
>> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try seems to be able to do the
>> neccesary conversions to create man pages that will have the wiki look
>> and feel. Any objections if I do that?
>
> that's fine - though I don't think the value in the man pages being online
> is as a great as some may think.

I tend to agree, there is enough duplicate information on the net. I
have no objection in not recreating it and simply pointing people to
the man page.

>> Some man pages direct bug reporting to trac and some to bugzilla. I
>> again, have assumed that trac is new and bugzilla old. Is this correct
>> and can I change bug reporting references to trac for everything?
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> trac is for yum-not-related-to-fedora-or-rhel
> bugzilla is for yum-related-to-fedora-or-rhel

That is an important distinction, I will write a standardized short
sentence to use in all man pages.

>
>>> Lastly a random question, why baseurl.org? Seems a bit unrelated to
>>
>> yum. Would anyone mind if I approach the owner of yum.org for the
>> possible usage/ownership of the domain or has that been
>> done/considered.
>
> I've contacted the owner of yum.org multiple times over multiple years -
> they never respond to any email.

The owner does not stay to far away from me... I will give her a call
and write her a letter.

>
> I registered baseurl.org to take yum and createrepo under one umbrella. It
> was the only name I could come up with that wasn't completely ridiculous - I
> liked it b/c of the use of the term 'baseurl' within yum.

:-) That is obvious now.


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Gerhardus Geldenhuis