Re: Documentation: Explaining "porterbox" better

2010-10-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Kan-Ru Chen wrote: Peter Palfrader writes: * rename it from "chroots to different distributions" to "porterboxes provide chroots to different distributions" It doesn't provide different distributions at all. All it does is debian. We usually have different suites of t

Re: Documentation: Explaining "porterbox" better

2010-10-20 Thread Kan-Ru Chen
Peter Palfrader writes: >> * rename it from "chroots to different distributions" to "porterboxes >> provide chroots to different distributions" > > It doesn't provide different distributions at all. All it does is > debian. We usually have different suites of that tho. Isn't `distribution' a

Re: Documentation: Explaining "porterbox" better

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > * Make section "4.4.6. chroots to different distributions" be 4.4.1, > since the existence and use of porterboxes is probably something fewer > people are familiar with That entire section looks horribly out of date anyway. I find the promise of bac

Documentation: Explaining "porterbox" better

2010-10-18 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I want to make it easier for people to understand what a "porterbox" is, and what DSA provides on it. So I'm going to give one proposal below for some changes to documentation+websites, and see what you all think. If they make sense (or if I hear nothing) I will come back with patches. (Please