www/149093: stale manual pages on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi

Stefan Hegnauer stefan.hegnauer at gmx.ch
Fri Jul 30 06:10:05 UTC 2010


>Number:         149093
>Category:       www
>Synopsis:       stale manual pages on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-www
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 30 06:10:04 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Stefan Hegnauer
>Release:        8.0-release + 8.1-stable
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD sstream.localnet 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #0: Mon Jul 26 13:27:00 CEST 2010     root at asus.:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SSTREAM  i386
>Description:
When asking for manual pages for e.g. 'FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE and Ports' on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi the result is often for other/older versions of FreeBSD.

Example: the portmaster(8) manual page from calling 'http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portmaster&apropos=0&sektion=0&manp
ath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html' results in the page of FBSD 7.2 from 2007. 
The same manpage on my 8.0 systems is up-to-date however, and also shows all
the options the program acquired since. 
>How-To-Repeat:
browse to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi using any browser and search for some manual pages for 'FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE and Ports' or 'FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE and Ports'.

All resulting man pages I tried so far are from FreeBSD 7.2.
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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