Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:15:15 +0900 From: Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@bsdclub.org> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: doc/ tree frozen (was Re: HEADS UP for /usr/src/release/doc & /usr/doc) Message-ID: <200106120415.f5C4FFE31990@sakura.mk.bsdclub.org> References: <20010612000519.E94513E0B@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> wrote:
> (The first URL still exists because the contents of the web site is
> never actually wiped; normally, it's just installed over.) This
> breaks *a lot* of links. Not only within the web site, but external
> links as well. This is, quite franky, unacceptable. Using symbolic
> links or HTTP redirects to remedy this is unsatisfying. We've had
> this discussion before, and symlinks are *evil* on web sites (just ask
> wosch), and HTTP redirects simply don't work for mirrors.
>
> At this point, I'd just like to hear what kind of solution you have
> for the above problem. We already changed most of the URLs some
> months ago; I don't think anybody wants to do it again.
Hmm. I think we'd better back out the repo-copy and changes
as soon as possible.
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