Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 19:12:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Harris <dannyboy@dannyboy.eyep.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/19074: various rot in freebsd.org/where.html Message-ID: <200006062312.TAA00996@dannyboy.eyep.net>
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>Number: 19074 >Category: docs >Synopsis: various rot in freebsd.org/where.html >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jun 06 16:20:01 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Daniel Harris >Release: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: I discovered this page looking through the www/ tree in cvs. In a brief search, I couldn't find any immediately obvious links to it (excepting the sitemap). If it _is_ actually linked to somewhere, more power to it -- there's a diff attached to bring it up to speed. If it isn't -- perhaps it should be linked to appropriately, or perhaps merged with availability.html. The two are somewhat similar. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: --- where.sgml.orig Tue Jun 6 18:34:25 2000 +++ where.sgml Tue Jun 6 19:01:21 2000 @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD</a>: <ul> - <li><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/3.3-RELEASE">FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE/alpha</a></li> - <li><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.4-RELEASE">FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE/i386</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/3.4-RELEASE">FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE/alpha</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.4-RELEASE">FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE/i386</a></li> </ul> </li> @@ -56,12 +56,11 @@ about past, present and future releases in general, please visit the <a href="releases/">release information page</a>.</p> - <p>If you're interesting in a purely experimental <strong>snapshot</strong> - release of FreeBSD-current (AKA 4.0-current), aimed at developers and + <p>If you're interested in a purely experimental <strong>snapshot</strong> + release of FreeBSD-current (AKA 5.0-current), aimed at developers and bleeding-edge testers only, then please see the <a href="ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">daily snapshot - server</a> FTP site. This site also contains daily snapshots of the - 2.2-stable branch.</p> + server</a> FTP site.</p> <a name="apps"></a> @@ -69,7 +68,7 @@ <h3>The Packages collection</h3> - <p>The FreeBSD packages are a diverse collection of utility and + <p>The FreeBSD packages collection is a diverse collection of utility and application software that has been ported to FreeBSD. The packages are pre-compiled binaries ready to drop into your system and run.</p> @@ -81,26 +80,27 @@ href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/2.2-stable/packages">Packages for FreeBSD 2.2-stable</a></li> <li><a - href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/3.2-stable/packages">Packages for FreeBSD 3.2-stable</a></li> + href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/3.0-stable/packages">Packages for FreeBSD 3.0-stable</a></li> + + <li><a + href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/4.0-stable/packages">Packages for FreeBSD 4.0-stable</a></li> + </ul> <h3>The Ports collection</h3> - <p>The Ports collection is like the packages collection but instead of - compiled binaries, the necessary patches and makefiles to compile the - source code are provided. For software with important configuration - that must be done at compile time, the "port" version may be more useful + <p>The Ports collection is like the packages collection, but the necessary + patches and makefiles to compile the source code are provided instead of + compiled binaries. For software with important configuration that must + be done at compile time, the "port" version may be more useful than the "package" version.</p> <ul> - <li><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports-current">Ports - for FreeBSD-current</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/">FreeBSD Ports + collection</a></li> - <li><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/2.2.8-RELEASE/ports">Ports - for FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE</a></li> - <li><a href="ports/index.html">WWW interface - to Ports for FreeBSD-current</a></li> + to Ports collection</a></li> </ul> <p>For information about how <em>you</em> can contribute <em>your</em> @@ -118,10 +118,6 @@ products specifically for FreeBSD.</p> <ul> - <li><a - href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/2.2.8-RELEASE/commerce">Commercial - products for FreeBSD 2.2.8</a></li> - <li><a href="commercial/commercial.html">Commercial vendors supporting FreeBSD</a></li> </ul> >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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