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Date:      Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:33:51 +0100
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org, "finwepalantir@yahoo.com" <finwepalantir@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: offline Handbook versions still outdated
Message-ID:  <20070208203351.GD996@zaphod.nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20070208202321.GG1131@gothic.blackend.org>
References:  <565369.93322.qm@web36702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20070208195406.GA996@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20070208202321.GG1131@gothic.blackend.org>

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On 2007.02.08 21:23:21 +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 08:54:07PM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > On 2007.02.08 04:53:50 -0800, finwepalantir@yahoo.com wrote:
> > 
> > > I downloaded the file book.html-split.tar.bz2 from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/
> > > and it says "Welcome to FreeBSD! This handbook covers the installation and day to day use
> > > of FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE." but the online version on the FreeBSD
> > > site has been updated to cover the FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. 
> > > 
> > > The timestamp for those two files in the directory in the central mirrors was 12/01/2006
> > > 06:34:00 AM. I can confirm that ftp://ftp.ca.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ and
> > > ftp://ftp.no.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ also shown the same timestamp.
> > 
> > In December the FTP master site died and some of the config was lost.
> > The config for synchronizing all the documentation broke then, but
> > nobody noticed so the docs haven't been updated since.
> 
> I noted it (in january), but since the update is on a monthly basis, I
> did not overreacted.  I was more concerned by the fact these tarballs
> should be updated for the announce of each new release.

Actually the docs are updated weekly (every Sunday) - at least they
are updated weekly on ftp-master.  They are built more or less every
second day on builder.FreeBSD.org now since the build takes a while
(it actually seems like it currently takes 42hours...).

If the docs are more than two weeks old something is probably wrong
(and people should poke me/doc@).  I don't see a reason to do anything
special for releases since the files should still not be more than 8
days old at the most (if things are not broken), and the docs doesn't
change that much...

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen



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