Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:15:44 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: duplicate pages Message-ID: <200212111815.gBBIFjxx042278@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <3DF73795.26681.25B135DB@localhost> References: <3DF5A7CE.10210.1F97770D@localhost> <3DF73795.26681.25B135DB@localhost>
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--==_Exmh_1528697592P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, "Dan Langille" wrote: > > The Web site rebuild doesn't remove old files, so over time, we grow > > an accumulation of cruft. Even though there are no pointers to the > > cruft from anywhere on our own Web site, there could easily be > > pointers from external sites (such as search engines). [snip] > I found these duplicates via google. Which means other people will > be finding the old stuff too.... Grrr. I was afraid of that. So one thing we could do is for every rebuild, build and install a clean copy of the Web site and then "as atomically as possible" switch from the previous version to the new version. This would be a little better than the current "install over the top of the old version" that we do now. Another thing we could do is to make a housecleaning rebuild only once per...day? week? I suspect this would work out a little better than my first suggestion. (But then what happens to the old links in Google? Are people going to get annoyed when the old links don't work anymore?) It'd be nice if the internal links for our documentation pages didn't change, but that would require some (large, I suspect) changes to the DocBook toolchain. Bruce. --==_Exmh_1528697592P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE994DQ2MoxcVugUsMRAhveAKCjPmOtP1hoRaQ2QNT+CyvHkTxTWgCffBKi o44wKrel/AsQSVa5Ea7psc4= =QsOE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1528697592P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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