Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:51:31 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, DA Forsyth <iwrtech@iwr.ru.ac.za> Subject: Re: Document not found - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mak Message-ID: <20050720165131.GA15042@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507202127590.16768@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <265471121849650-796951967bdb8@IWR50.412.spamsucks.net> <20050720125312.GA17327@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507202127590.16768@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
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On 2005-07-20 22:05, David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote: >On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2005-07-20 10:54, DA Forsyth <iwrtech@iwr.ru.ac.za> wrote: >>> The file >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html. >>> >>> does not exist at this server. You are coming from >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mergemaster&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-RELEASE. >> >> That's because the manpage uses /doc/handbook to refer to the Handbook >> instead of the correct, which is /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook. >> >> I've fixed the mergemaster manpage on HEAD and will merge the new URL to >> the other branches after a few days. In the meantime, you can find the >> same section at: > > While having the full URL is better, I think that this might actually be a > problem with the automatic link-finder in man.cgi. > /doc/handbook/makeworld.html does exist, but the link in mergemaster(8) is > resolved by the CGI to > "http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html." - note the trailing > '.'. > > I can't find another manpage reproduces this, and I can't work out the > PERL that finds and creates HREFs from the URLs in the source. I might be > jumping the gun, but is there a way to check that this fix definitely > takes the trailing '.' off the generated link? I'm not sure if there's a good way to do that. Good catch though.
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