Call to current maintainer of the server guide

Mathias Gug mathiaz at ubuntu.com
Tue Nov 6 19:15:00 UTC 2007


Hi Matthew,

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:40:14PM +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> > 2.  The server team wants to ship the serverguide as part of the build.
> > Wouldn't it be easier to ship the serverguide and that is it, instead of
> > having to ship the entire ubuntu-docs packavge?
> 
> I don't think you've investigated properly how this is currently done
> - the serverguide is already shipped in a separate package. It is in
> the ubuntu-serverguide package which is totally separate from the
> ubuntu-docs binary package (although the ubuntu-docs binary package
> also uses the same sever material for the desktop help). Both packages
> build out of the ubuntu-docs source package. As far as I know the
> ubuntu-serverguide package is included in a standard ubuntu server
> installation - if not then it is trivial to add it.

The ubuntu-serverguide is shipped on the server cd, but is not install
in the default server installation.
Another issue that was raised during the discussion at UDS is to provide the
server guide in text files. Currently the guide is only available in
html.

--
Mathias




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