If we were to setup a URL for downloading the docs tarball, would it be possible to pull that tarfile when you build a release tarfile instead of including it in the git repo?
-- James -----Original Message----- From: rsyslog-boun...@lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-boun...@lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Rainer Gerhards Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 2:44 PM To: rsyslog-users Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Question to package builders Well what I don't like about the "one tarball" distribution is that I need to put the doc tarball into rsyslog git, because otherwise other folks will have a hard time doing eg make dist. But its not such a big deal really. Rainer Sent from phone, thus brief. Am 25.02.2014 21:40 schrieb "Michael Biebl" <mbi...@gmail.com>: > 2014-02-25 21:36 GMT+01:00 David Lang <da...@lang.hm>: > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, Brad Davis wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:33:51PM +0100, Rainer Gerhards wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi folks, > >>> > >>> as you probably know, we get a new documentation thanks to the > >>> rsyslog-doc project. I don't want to add all files individually to > >>> rsyslog. Would > the > >>> following work for you > >>> > >>> a) two tarballs are being provided, one with source, one with doc > >>> b) a single tarball is provided, but it contains the doc tarball > >>> as > whole > >>> c) anything else? > >>> > >>> *I* would prefer a), but not sure if that's a decent choice for > >>> other folks. Feedback appreciated. > >> > >> > >> As the current maintainer for rsyslog in The FreeBSD Ports > >> collection, I would prefer option B. To me it makes a lot of sense > >> to ship documentation with the product so people do not have to go > >> far when they have trouble. > >> > >> For some reason, this seems very unpopular with some of the linux > >> distros. > >> > >> I think a common ground that would make sense is a web build that > updates > >> every day and shipping the latest build of docs with each release. > > > > > > personally, I like having the docs as a separate package. > > > > on servers or embedded devices, I don't need to waste the space on > > all > the > > HTML documentation that is really hard to use anyway. > > > Fwiw, in Debian I do split the documentation into a separate binary > package already. > So, if the documentation is split into a separate source package, for > my users nothing will basically change. It just means a bit more work > for me. > > > > -- > Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the > universe are pointed away from Earth? > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE > WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of > sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > DON'T LIKE THAT. > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
