2013/3/8 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Michael Biebl pointed out that some links in > www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/index.html are > broken. Unfortunately all links to man page aliases are broken. This > is because only man includes are generated (e.g. build/man/init.1 > contains only '.so man1/systemd.1'). There are a few options how to > deal with this problem: > 1. modify generation logic to link to the target page directly, not > the alias > 2. add stub HTML pages which contain a redirect (probably both > <meta http-equiv="refresh" content=""> and javascript and an > explicit link to be safe). > 3. add server redirects in a .htaccess file. .htaccess would be > generated along with the index. > > I don't like option 1. because it break the property that "one > can go to www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/xxx.html and > see the man page for xxx". > > Option 3. would be nicest but would require allowing .htaccess on > fd.o, which is currently not allowed. Option 2. would work too. > > Thoughts, solutions, comments?
I'd prefer 2/ since that doesn't require a running webserver. javascript required is probably overkill. The refresh meta tag + explicit link should be sufficient. But couldn't we just create file symlinks? Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
