Re: Docs packaging

[Stuart Ellis]

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 18:15 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
>  On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 17:56 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>  > I want to take a stab at packaging at least a few of the biggie Fedora
>  > docs for FC5.  Some of these thoughts below:
>  
>  [snip]
>  
>  > 
>  > * Packages will consist of HTML.  The XML will be in the .src.rpm as
>  > expected.  Building to be done via the buildsys/plague per normal
>  > routine, unless someone has a better idea that doesn't require a lot of
>  > manual intervention.  We don't really need our own buildsys, since the
>  > docs packages would live in Extras anyway.
>  
>  Can we ship the XML (perhaps as well) and have the documentation
>  readable in Yelp?  It would be great to have the installed Fedora docs
>  appear when clicking on the desktop's "Help" menu item. 
The XML files for the existing documents are actually pretty small:

Installation Guide: 114k
Yum tutorial: 58k

So if each document is in a separate package I don't think that it would
add much to the size.

The IG ends up being large, but that's just all the PNG files.

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Stuart Ellis

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