Re: Apt & Downloads page

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
To: cedric(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Apt & Downloads page
Date: 2013-08-09 20:20:21
Message-ID: 52054F05.3020006@kaltenbrunner.cc
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On 08/09/2013 09:52 PM, Cédric Villemain wrote:
>> apt.postgresql.org redirects to http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt,
>> which has complete instructions and methods for installing from
>> apt.postgresql.org.
>>
>> However, the information on
>> http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/ is more-or-less the
>> same as it was 9 months ago, including the hard-to-follow key
>> installation intructions.
>>
>> Might I suggest that http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/
>> replace all of the instructions with a link to the wiki page instead?
>> Instead of maintaining two different sets of instructions.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/ (and debian) both have a link
> to the wiki page already.
>
> The instructions are the same, what's to be blamed is the CSS on the download
> pages, IMHO.
>
> I believe people like the list of distributions they can click to setup the
> good deb entry to sources.list. It is not present in the wiki... If we can
> have the same list with action on both then it might be interesting to grab
> the content from the wiki to write it in the download pages. A link is less
> friendly when you have already clicked several time to reach the instruction
> page (and are new to PostgreSQL)
>
> Note that the linux/redhat page is like the ubuntu/debian, outdated about the
> last PostgreSQL stable.

will fix - thanks for mentioning!

Stefan

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