Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:25:40 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: Hideyuki KURASHINA <rushani@bl.mmtr.or.jp> Subject: Re: Online manuals of FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE are broken Message-ID: <20030706192540.A4073@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20030704225121.GA47068@intruder.bmah.org>; from bmah@freebsd.org on Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:51:21PM -0700 References: <20030628105942.49853.qmail@web14810.mail.yahoo.com> <20030628.212639.91215851.rushani@bl.mmtr.or.jp> <20030704225121.GA47068@intruder.bmah.org>
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On 2003-07-04 15:51:21 -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Hideyuki KURASHINA wrote: > > Hi, > > > > >>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 03:59:42 -0700, Rostislav Krasny <rosti_bsd@yahoo.com> said: > > > > > Hello there. > > > > > > I found that online manual pages of FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE are broken. To > > > see it yourself go to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi and try to > > > find any manual of FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. > > > > Hmm... I don't know the reason why it is broken. > > This was broken until about five minutes ago. I installed a set of > 5.1-RELEASE manual pages in place of a dangling symlink on the Web > server. We really ought to put this in the RE checklist. :-p Well, a release must always be a directory and never be a symlink to -current/-stable manpages. The -current manpages (may) change the directory name on a weekly basis and other symlinks will point into the void. -Wolfram -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org
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