From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 8 20:22:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D110816A40A; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:22:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (bgn92-3-82-227-222-164.fbx.proxad.net [82.227.222.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51D1D13C441; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:22:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (gothic.blackend.org [192.168.1.203]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l18KMDES060198; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:22:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (localhost.blackend.org [127.0.0.1]) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l18KNM1A021932; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:23:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l18KNLTA021931; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:23:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:23:21 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille To: "Simon L. Nielsen" Message-ID: <20070208202321.GG1131@gothic.blackend.org> References: <565369.93322.qm@web36702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20070208195406.GA996@zaphod.nitro.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070208195406.GA996@zaphod.nitro.dk> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, "finwepalantir@yahoo.com" Subject: Re: offline Handbook versions still outdated X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:22:16 -0000 On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 08:54:07PM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2007.02.08 04:53:50 -0800, finwepalantir@yahoo.com wrote: > > > I downloaded the file book.html-split.tar.bz2 from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/ > > and it says "Welcome to FreeBSD! This handbook covers the installation and day to day use > > of FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE." but the online version on the FreeBSD > > site has been updated to cover the FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. > > > > The timestamp for those two files in the directory in the central mirrors was 12/01/2006 > > 06:34:00 AM. I can confirm that ftp://ftp.ca.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ and > > ftp://ftp.no.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ also shown the same timestamp. > > In December the FTP master site died and some of the config was lost. > The config for synchronizing all the documentation broke then, but > nobody noticed so the docs haven't been updated since. > I noted it (in january), but since the update is on a monthly basis, I did not overreacted. I was more concerned by the fact these tarballs should be updated for the announce of each new release. -- Marc