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Date:      Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:14:08 +0100
From:      "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        webmaster@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Documentation Masters <doceng@FreeBSD.org>, World Wide Web Owner <www@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Removal of old/outdated files from www.FreeBSD.org site
Message-ID:  <9B7CD8B1-42CB-487D-9C27-C9F6D39CD600@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120728041732.GH1485@glenbarber.us>
References:  <20120728041732.GH1485@glenbarber.us>

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[Adding www@ so more people will see and we can wait a bit with the next =
time this comes up :) ]

On 28 Jul 2012, at 05:17, Glen Barber wrote:

[Stale files]

> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/x5798.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/x5802.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/x5834.html
>=20
> If someone from clusteradm@ (or someone else with access to the =
machine
> on which the documentation build output exists) can remove these old
> files so they are not archived by search engines (since in some cases,
> old file names can indicate very old files, and worse, very old
> information that could be potentially dangerous to a user looking for
> specific information), I would greatly appreciate it.

The problem is that it's not a simple thing to do. Our build installs =
with the option to not install if files are identical, so timestamps =
can't be used alone.

E.g. =
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/TRADEMARKS.html :

-r--r--r--  1 www  wwwadm  4494 Jan  9  2010 TRADEMARKS.html

I have removed the mentioned files but I don't have time to do a full =
sweep as I might end up deleting too much.

> Furthermore, if someone with the appropriate access can provide a list
> of similarly-named files (which also likely can be fixed with adding a
> section id to the source), I will personally fix the section id so =
these
> files do not occur again.  (It would be even more helpful if the files
> could be provided as an attachment so I can view the source to track
> down from where they are being generated.)

There is no need for special access to do that. Just build all the docs =
in html-split and find xNNNN.html files. It's a regular thing which has =
to be done as people forget when adding new content. I also remember =
hunting down those files when I more active in doc.

I just looked at porters-handboot and it seems there is at least one =
left:

-r--r--r--   1 www  wwwadm    2917 Jul 26 13:31 x5834.html

<h1 class=3D"SECT1"><a id=3D"AEN5834" name=3D"AEN5834">6.26 Ports That =
Rely on Kernel
Sources</a></h1>

--=20
Simon L. B. Nielsen




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