From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 8 20:34:00 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 2F78A16A400 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:34:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simon@zaphod.nitro.dk) Received: from mx.nitro.dk (zarniwoop.nitro.dk [83.92.207.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D346713C467 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:33:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simon@zaphod.nitro.dk) Received: from zaphod.nitro.dk (unknown [192.168.3.39]) by mx.nitro.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9838A2D5AB1; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:33:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by zaphod.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 3000) id 9E51B1141E; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:33:51 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:33:51 +0100 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: Marc Fonvieille Message-ID: <20070208203351.GD996@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <565369.93322.qm@web36702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20070208195406.GA996@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20070208202321.GG1131@gothic.blackend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070208202321.GG1131@gothic.blackend.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, "finwepalantir@yahoo.com" Subject: Re: offline Handbook versions still outdated X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: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 20:34:00 -0000 On 2007.02.08 21:23:21 +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > 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. Actually the docs are updated weekly (every Sunday) - at least they are updated weekly on ftp-master. They are built more or less every second day on builder.FreeBSD.org now since the build takes a while (it actually seems like it currently takes 42hours...). If the docs are more than two weeks old something is probably wrong (and people should poke me/doc@). I don't see a reason to do anything special for releases since the files should still not be more than 8 days old at the most (if things are not broken), and the docs doesn't change that much... -- Simon L. Nielsen