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SubjectRe: man-pages-2.59 and man-pages-2.60 are released
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.

--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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