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Date:      Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:14:42 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Denis Peplin <den@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook book.sgml
Message-ID:  <20040429101442.GK10877@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <40909696.5080408@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200404141711.i3EHBF3S006248@repoman.freebsd.org> <40909696.5080408@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 09:45:58AM +0400, Denis Peplin wrote:
> Hello!
>=20
> Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> >phantom     2004/04/14 10:11:15 PDT
> >
> >  FreeBSD doc repository
> >
> >  Modified files:
> >    en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook book.sgml=20
> >  Log:
> >  Use absolute url while referencing main web site (not relative=20
> >  reference).
> >  I have two reasons to do this change:
> > =20
> >    . We are referencing 'main web site', so need to refer *main* website
> >    . When handbook is installed on into /usr/share/doc, or mirrored
> >      on third part site (handbook only) -- this link is broken.
> > =20
> >  Revision  Changes    Path
> >  1.146     +1 -1      doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.sgml
>=20
> We have another 59 relative links to our website:
> find /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/ -name "*.sgml" -exec egrep '(\.\./){3,}' {=
}=20
> \; | wc -l
>=20
> I can fix ( -> absolute) it all, if no objections.

Please don't.  Relative links let me install a local copy and look
around it in the sure knowledge that I'm still on my local site, and it
also allows people to install mirrors in a subdirectory of their main
server or even their home directory.

The one that phantom changed above specifically referred to the "FreeBSD
web site" so is OK, but the others should stay.

Ceri

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