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 Subject: Re: offline Handbook versions still outdated Message-ID: 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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