Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764363AbXF1QyT (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:54:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759301AbXF1QyH (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:54:07 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:59182 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1758948AbXF1QyG (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:54:06 -0400 Cc: rob@landley.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:54:05 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk" In-Reply-To: <4683E2CB.8090100@ums.usu.ru> Message-ID: <20070628165405.32040@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <467F8FCF.4080009@gmx.net> <4683BC76.8070805@ums.usu.ru> <20070628161720.298550@gmx.net> <4683E2CB.8090100@ums.usu.ru> Subject: Re: man-pages-2.59 and man-pages-2.60 are released To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" X-Authenticated: #24879014 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 6100 (Global Message Exchange) X-Priority: 3 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/jO+s4MAHj/yuAMxxQbyaAwQYnJW4yxnDOhVyaqD reurAsn3U9Za/Us1Vl0OMLmxI3IQjYs1Dmug== Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-GMX-UID: mt+1d7Y/YmYBfZCoHnY3SHtCWkZTQVR1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1515 Lines: 40 > Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > How about a link in /pub/linux/docs/manpages/ of the form > > "LATEST-IS-m.xy"? Rob Landley was wanting something like this, > > and I guess it would be easy for LFS to build a simple > > script that looks for that link and deduces "man-pages-m.xy" > > from it. (I've just now created such a link in the directory, > > as an example.) > > We don't care about the latest version, so the link neither helps nor > hurts us. What's needed is that the URL and the MD5 sum for a > version in the book > don't change, and that LFS developers have a reasonable time (say, two > weeks) to react to version updates. Don't change for how long? As I said, old versions never were available "forever" on kernel.org -- usually they only stayed a few months, though lately the lifetime stretched out a little. I don't really want to, for example, copy the tarball to two places each time. That takes me extra time, and is prone to errors (e.g., I might forget). Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages , read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/