Re: Distribution HOWTO about to bite the dust.

["Greg Ferguson" <gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>]

On Aug 23,  1:42pm, Greg Ferguson wrote:
> Subject: Re: Distribution HOWTO about to bite the dust.
> On Aug 22, 11:20pm, David Lawyer wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Distribution HOWTO about to bite the dust.
> > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:18:54PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > [...]
> > Since it's still needed, I think it should go to "Unmaintained".
> > >
> > > 2) That the META-FAQ be updated to point to LWN's distribution page
> > >    and the ports page).
> > >
> > > Of course, if anyone disagrees and wants to continue maintaining the
> > > Distribution HOWTO, that person is welcome to do so.
> >
> > Let's look for a new maintainer.  And thanks to ESR for his work on
> > it.  I found it useful.  Could someone add a link to LWN's
> > distribution page to it so it would then be somewhat less obsolete?
>
> I can add the link, but it's too date specific in it's
> current form. Is there a way anyone knows of to link to
> lwn in a non-specific manner (and have it re-direct)?
>
> Currently, we have:
>
>    http://lwn.net/2000/0817/dists.php3
>
> What I'd like to have/use as a reference (and have it re-direct):
>
>    http://lwn.net/latest/dists.php3
>
> something of that nature. Otherwise, I suppose we could point
> to other distribution info sites, such as kernerlnotes.org,
> linux.com, etc.


Got it (per the LWN folks): http://lwn.net/current/dists.php3

I'll add this into the HOWTO-INDEX, in the abstract area for the
Distribution HOWTO. I can also place it into the Distribution
HOWTO itself.

It also looks like we (hopefully) have a new maintainer.

	Ferg


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