Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:52:11 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: man-pages-2.59 and man-pages-2.60 are released |
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Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Alexander, > >>> I just released man-pages-2.59 and man-pages-2.60. >>> >>> These releases are now available for download at: >>> >>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages > > Yes, just this morning I decided to tidy away some of the old > tarballs into a newly created "old" directory. > >> There is one little problem with this: there is no stable URL for a given >> version. > > Well, there never really was. To date, most old tarballs have > had only a limited life on kernel.org. > Why? I'm not questioning the policy, it's just that if HUGE kernel versions are kept available forever, a tiny man page tar would not seem to be a disk space issue.
>> This hurts, e.g., automated Linux From Scratch rebuilds (the >> official script grabs the URL from the book, but it becomes invalid too >> soon). >> >> Could you please, in order to avoid this, do what SAMBA team does: place >> into http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/Old not only old >> versions, but also the current version? This way, LFS will be sure that >> the 2.60 version is always available as > > As noted above old versions never were "always available" on > kernel.org... > >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/Old/man-pages-2.60.tar.bz2 >> (even if it is in fact the latest version). > > How about a link in /pub/linux/docs/manpages/ of the form > "LATEST-IS-m.xy"? Rob Landley was wanting something like this, > and I guess it would be easy for LFS to build a simple > script that looks for that link and deduces "man-pages-m.xy" > from it. (I've just now created such a link in the directory, > as an example.) > Why not just a link with a fixed name (LATEST?) which could be updated? I assume installing a new version is automated to create and install the tar, any needed links, the push to mirrors, etc. So it would just be a single step added to an automated procedure. You could have a link in "Old" as requested, and any other links as well.
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