Online manuals of FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE are broken

[Bruce A. Mah]

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,
> > > 
> > > >>> 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.

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.
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