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Date:      Sun, 6 Jul 2003 14:28:04 -0700
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Online manuals of FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE are broken
Message-ID:  <20030706212804.GA1901@intruder.kitchenlab.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030706192540.A4073@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org>
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If memory serves me right, Wolfram Schneider wrote:
> On 2003-07-04 15:51:21 -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> > If memory serves me right, Hideyuki KURASHINA wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >=20
> > > >>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 03:59:42 -0700, Rostislav Krasny <rosti_bsd@y=
ahoo.com> said:
> > >=20
> > > > Hello there.
> > > >=20
> > > > I found that online manual pages of FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE are broken.=
 To
> > > > see it yourself go to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi and try to
> > > > find any manual of FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE.
> > >=20
> > > Hmm... I don't know the reason why it is broken.
> >=20
> > This was broken until about five minutes ago.  I installed a set of
> > 5.1-RELEASE manual pages in place of a dangling symlink on the Web
> > server.  We really ought to put this in the RE checklist.  :-p
>=20
> Well, a release must always be a directory and
> never be a symlink to -current/-stable manpages. The
> -current manpages (may) change the directory name on
> a weekly basis and other symlinks will point into the void.

That's really hard to do in the days leading up to a release, when I
don't have the manpages available yet, but still need to have
something on the Web site.  :-p

Bruce.

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