Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 14:28:04 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Online manuals of FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE are broken Message-ID: <20030706212804.GA1901@intruder.kitchenlab.org> In-Reply-To: <20030706192540.A4073@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> References: <20030628105942.49853.qmail@web14810.mail.yahoo.com> <20030628.212639.91215851.rushani@bl.mmtr.or.jp> <20030704225121.GA47068@intruder.bmah.org> <20030706192540.A4073@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org>
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--d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > On 2003-07-04 15:51:21 -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > If memory serves me right, Hideyuki KURASHINA wrote: > > > Hi, > > >=20 > > > >>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 03:59:42 -0700, Rostislav Krasny <rosti_bsd@y= ahoo.com> said: > > >=20 > > > > Hello there. > > > >=20 > > > > 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. > > >=20 > > > Hmm... I don't know the reason why it is broken. > >=20 > > 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 >=20 > 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. That's really hard to do in the days leading up to a release, when I don't have the manpages available yet, but still need to have something on the Web site. :-p Bruce. --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/CJRk2MoxcVugUsMRAh2mAJ44UqF4nXy0PgRfUpDtnf7vUUwxMgCeIMXU q/UZTA4GSMqsFrNRecIJWK4= =jj1O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--
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