Re: Aliase(s) on FTP site

Hi Simon,

>>> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:13:55 +0200, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> said:

> hrs@ poked me via IRC and it seems that it's only on ftp-master there
> was a problem with a stale ja directory and not on builder (where the
> docs are built).  I cleaned out the ja directory and made a symlink
> manually.

Thanks for investigating this matter.  I'm looking forward to see
the problem resolved next FTP site update.

> > By the way, I noticed doc/{bn_BD.ISO10646-1,da_DK.ISO8859-1} don't
> > have any aliases.
> > 
> > Just a thought, how about create following aliases on the FTP site?
> > 
> >   pub/FreeBSD/doc/bn_BD.ISO10646-1 -> pub/FreeBSD/doc/bn
> >   pub/FreeBSD/doc/da_DK.ISO8859-1  -> pub/FreeBSD/doc/da
> 
> I very intentionally didn't create it for "bn" when that was added
> since I don't see the point in having them for "new" translations.
> 
> Notice the variable in the Makefile which creates the symlink is
> called "COMPAT_SYMLINK".  The only reason I see of those symlinks is
> to preserve old URL's, other than that I think they just make the
> directory listing of our doc/ directories (both on ftp and the web
> site) harder to navigate.

I see.  Thank you for kind clarification.

Regards,

-- rushani
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