Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:44:40 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@snipe.rim.or.jp> Cc: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Build the WWW Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980119123423.26398V-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801191537.AAA03422@eddie.snipe.rim.or.jp>
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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Motoyuki Konno wrote: > I wrote a Makefile to build the FreeBSD WWW. Please send me your > comments or suggestions. Looks good. I think we do need a better way of getting the ports INDEX file though. It would be nice if a new one was generated on a regular basis by by a cron job, and made available via ftp or http. That would also help keeping the ports web pages in sync with the ftp site. When ports go away (for example, the various now-obsolete permutations of samba), it can take quite a while for that to be reflected in the web pages. It might also be good to add a target for checking to ensure all the necessary ports are installed. In fact, this makefile could probably be packaged as a port and then it could use the BUILD_DEPENDS to ensure a complete toolkit. If we get mirrors building their own web pages, that opens the door to local tweaks, such as an option to run various CGIs locally. Also, as a slightly tangential topic, I would like to migrate from /ja_JP.EUC/... URLs to /ja/... URLs. Any objections? Any suggestions about the least painful (for mirrors) of doing it? The best way would be to just move stuff to ja, and issue a permanent redirect for ja_JP.EUC, but that requires that all mirrors twiddle their server config. I suppose we could install a symlink from ja_JP.EUC to ja for a period of time, but web crawlers and indexers will persist in using the obsolete URL and do redundant indexing. -john
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