On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 7:10 PM Dmitry V. Levin <l...@altlinux.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 01:37:32PM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 1:00 PM Alfred M. Szmidt <a...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > > Markus Fischer <geschaeftl...@markus-fischer.name> wrote:
> > >> I had downloaded from
> > >> "http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.guess";
> > ...
> > > That doesn't correspond to the output you sent; which says that
> > > config.guess is from 2008 -- a very old one.
> >
> > That URL really does yield an old config.guess from 2008. It refers to
> > the *CVS* repository for config.*, and I suppose 2008 is the last time
> > that was updated.
>
> I've synced config.guess and config.sub in that forgotten cvs repository
> with the git repository to workaround this issue.
>
> I suppose this was a one-time event, and no more updates in the cvs
> repository would be necessary.

I wonder if there's any way we could make these old CVS URLs redirect
to the current cgit URLs? Then we wouldn't have to worry about it.

zw

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