On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Alan Bartlett <ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com> wrote: > On 18/07/2008, Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden at gmail.com> wrote: >> Note that none of these articles are about building RPMs anyway, one >> is a kind of FAQ on Yum and RPM and the second one is on building your >> own kernel. > > Perhaps you would care to draft out what you have in mind. > Russ, Ralph and Akemi - do you have any comments, please? My view on this is as follows. I and many others use Wiki articles to help users. A good example is the Repositories page: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories Just checked the CentOS forums and found we have referred to this URL 18 times this month alone. That's about once a day. I see the same thing on the CentOS IRC - frequent citation to that Wiki. As a matter of fact, quite a few Wiki articles were created out of demand - demand by helpers rather than users. We get tired of typing the same thing over and over again. So, when I want to assess if a new Wiki page is worth writing, I base it on the past record and see if that article would have helped if existed. Here, I picked up some threads in the forums that are related to "building from srpm". (1) This is the latest one. In there, Ned gives a brief description as the "theory". http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15267&forum=37&post_id=53624#forumpost53624 (2) In this thread, a user asks "Is there some howto to do that on Centos...?" Alan answers with the correct command. But no one responded with a howto. http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=15002&forum=28 (3) Another regular helper and now a Wiki author, pjwelsh, also provides an answer with the rpmbuild command to use. http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15184&forum=31&post_id=53235#forumpost53235 (4) Yet another case by pjwelsh. http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15161&forum=45&post_id=53115#forumpost53115 (5) Here is mine as toracat :-D http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=14195&forum=38&post_id=48562#forumpost48562 Except for mine which was in May, all other examples are from this month and from "highly knowledgeable people". I personally feel (my selfish thinking) that a single point of reference to a CentOS wiki would have helped *both* the helpers and the users in all these cases and many others I have seen not only in the forums but in the mailing lists and IRC as well. Akemi