Bug 38141

Summary:	Link to a stale package in the handbook
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Shill <shill>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Shill 2002-05-16 11:40:01 UTC

In Appendix A.6 (Using CVSup):
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html

In section A.6.2, there remains a link to a stale cvsupit package:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/cvsupit.tgz
(dated 2000-04-05)

I think this package installs a buggy version of CVSup:
http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/

Fix: 

Proposed fix:
  delete stale package to avoid confusion?
  update link to latest package?

I'm not sure where the latest package lives, maybe:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/All/cvsupit-3.1.tgz

Comment 1 Craig Rodrigues 2002-05-17 19:31:34 UTC

Hi,

I ran into the same problem.  The package:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/cvsupit.tgz

installs an outdated version of cvsup.  This version
of cvsup will *NOT* work with any of the FreeBSD cvsup servers.

The version of cvsup in this file should be updated to the
latest one from John Polstra: http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/

At the very least, the documentation in the FreeBSD handbook
should be updated to reflect where the latest version of cvsupit
lives.
-- 
Craig Rodrigues        
http://www.gis.net/~craigr    
rodrigc@attbi.com

Comment 2 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer

2002-05-30 10:10:54 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Packages in the documentation should be referred to in <filename 
role="package">.  This package is no different than hundreds of others 
in the Handbook.  It should never have been referenced with a specific 
link for the package for a certain release and architecture of 
FreeBSD.  The rendering for <filename role="package"> could be 
enhanced to include links to download the package for different 
architectures, but thats another issue.