From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 11 21:15:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mk.bsdclub.org (adsl2073.ea.rim.or.jp [202.247.148.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD8A37B403; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:15:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from motoyuki@mk.bsdclub.org) Received: from sakura.mk.bsdclub.org (sakura.mk.bsdclub.org [3ffe:505:2022:0:2a0:c9ff:fe20:9aff]) by mail.mk.bsdclub.org (8.11.3+3.4W/3.7W/smtpfeed 1.12) with ESMTP/inet6 id f5C4FFL15692; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:15:15 +0900 (JST) Received: from sakura.mk.bsdclub.org (localhost.mk.bsdclub.org [127.0.0.1]) by sakura.mk.bsdclub.org (8.11.3/3.7W) with ESMTP/inet id f5C4FFE31990; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:15:15 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200106120415.f5C4FFE31990@sakura.mk.bsdclub.org> To: Dima Dorfman Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , Nik Clayton , 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) From: Motoyuki Konno X-Mailer: mh-e on Mule 2.3 / Emacs 19.34.1 References: <20010612000519.E94513E0B@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:15:15 +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dima Dorfman 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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Motoyuki Konno motoyuki@bsdclub.org (Home) motoyuki@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Project) http://www.freebsd.org/~motoyuki/ (WWW) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message