Online manuals of FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE are broken

[Wolfram Schneider]

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 at 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

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