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Package: www.debian.org
Severity: normal
From Europe view, the online copy of developers-reference [1] is broken.
All links in the TOC are dead.
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/
Patrik
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On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:36:14PM +0200, Patrik Fimml wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 09:45:27PM +0200, Simon Paillard wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 05:27:54PM +0200, Patrik Fimml wrote:
> > > From Europe view, the online copy of developers-reference [1] is broken.
> > > All links in the TOC are dead.
> > >
> > > [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/
> >
> > Thanks for your report.
> >
> > This is due to the current 7doc crontab on www-master, which uses
> > absolute symlinks.
> >
> > These symlinks are no longer valid once replicated on webmirrors.
> >
> > Here is a (ugly) patch against the current crontab, in order to use
> > relative syminks.
>
> > - ln -sf $webdocdir/developers-reference/$(basename "$doc" .html).en.html
> > $webdocdir/developers-reference/$(basename "$doc" .html).html.en
> > + cd $webdocdir/developers-reference/
> > + ln -sf $(basename "$doc" .html).en.html $(basename "$doc" .html).html.en
>
> maybe I'm missing something, but
>
> - ln -sf $webdocdir/developers-reference/$(basename "$doc" .html).en.html
> $webdocdir/developers-reference/$(basename "$doc" .html).html.en
> + ln -sf $(basename "$doc" .html).en.html
> $webdocdir/developers-reference/$(basename "$doc" .html).html.en
>
> should work just as well, no need for all those ugly cds. (I would have
> submitted a new patch, but I don't have access to the original file.)
Thank you both for handling this problem. I've just committed a patch
that should relativize the symbolic links and, hopefully, fix the
problem.
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Matt Kraai http://ftbfs.org/
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