[PLUG] Docs not local...

[Chris Dawson]

Some wikis allow you to export pages to a tarball.  Instiki for example.

Chris

On 8/22/06, Ali Corbin <ali.corbin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/22/06, plug_0 at robinson-west.com <plug_0 at robinson-west.com> wrote:
> > Is anyone else concerned with the move to wikis and web based documentation,
> > especially for recent Linux distros such as Fedora Core 5, that local
> > documentation will be increasingly treated as a thing of the past?  I need
> > to know how to compile custom kernels to boot Fedora Core 3 and 5 NFS root.
> > There used to be a kernel-source package, but now things have dramatically
> > changed leaving me very confused.  I don't understand in Core 5 what the note
> > that an initial ramdisk is required now means.  Information doesn't need to be
> > on the web, it needs to be in my hands thank you.  This is especially true if
> > I'm unfortunate enough to find myself offline or trying to support an older
> > Fedora Core system that the web has lost interest in...
> >
> > Michael C. Robinson
> >
>
> There's still a kernel source package, but it's now a
> kernel.*.src.rpm, where it used to be a kernel-source.*.rpm.  And yum
> won't get src rpms for you (grumble, grumble) so you have to drag it
> down from one of the mirrors yourself.
>
> As for documentation, is the kernel-doc package not being kept up to date?
>
> Ali
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