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Date:      Sat, 07 Jul 2001 17:41:58 -0700
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To:        "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org, nik@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: partially broken link on cvsweb 
Message-ID:  <20010708004158.C31363E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010706120326.B13021@peorth.iteration.net>; from keichii@iteration.net on "Fri, 6 Jul 2001 12:03:26 -0500"

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"Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> writes:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just wanted to let you guys know that on
> http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#cvs links "web interface"
> hardcoded to http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi .
> 
> This kinda defeats the purpose of mirroring a www site.
> And everytime we cvsup, we have to make the change ourselves
> via script.  Can we resolve this issue or is there some
> problem with websites not being able to mirror a repo?

Not all mirrors can do it or want to do it; in fact, not all mirrors
can run out CGIs.  Thus, all links to a CGI script point explicitly to
www.FreeBSD.org.  It would be nice to come up with a way to satisfy
both kinds (those that want CGIs and those that don't), but remember
that hosting the CGIs not only means hosting the repo, but the GNATS
database and some other things.  It would also mean that our CGIs
should no longer assume they're running on freefall, which is no small
feat.

					Dima Dorfman
					dima@unixfreak.org

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