Re: Broken links in the woody install docs (only a few left) - Help fix them

2002-06-13 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 07:25:25PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 03:17:04PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > > 1. >http://www.debian.org/releases/woody//release-notes/ch-upgrading..html > > links dists/woody//main/upgrade-/ which don't exist &

Broken links in the woody install docs (only a few left) - Help fix them

2002-06-13 Thread James A. Treacy
Here is a summary of the broken links in the woody documentation (everything under http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/) followed by the original output of the url checker. There are only 4 groups of broken links left and it should be easy for someone familiar with a given section to fix it. Sum

patch for debian-boot/boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/C/release_notes

2002-04-25 Thread James A. Treacy
I didn't want to step on anyone's toes by committing the following change without bringing it up here. There was a discussion on #debian-devel complaining about the use of the word 'unpaid' when referring to the debian developers. Below is a suggested change. I will commit it in a few days if the

Woody install docs down to 6 (sets of) broken links or sites

2002-04-22 Thread James A. Treacy
The results of the latest link checker on the woody install documentation and release notes shows only 6 broken links or sites. The full results can be found at http://people.debian.org/~treacy/woody.broken.links but a summary is given below: 1. Every file of the form http://www.debian.org/rel

Re: Please fix link with a space in it

2002-04-16 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 07:23:03AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:47:34AM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > > Although many browsers accept urls with a space in them, it isn't a > > good idea. The following removes one from ch-preparing. >

Broken link in it/hardware.sgml - fix included

2002-04-15 Thread James A. Treacy
it/hardware.sgml contains the link http://ildp.pluto.linux.it/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO Simply replace it with http://ildp.pluto.linux.it/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html and the world will be a better place. Could someone with cvs access please commit this change? -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

M68k specific broken link in install docs

2002-04-15 Thread James A. Treacy
http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/m68k/ch-install-methods.??.html contain a link to http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-m68k/current/mac/debian-mac.txt which is broken. That file does exist in boot-floppies/m68k-specials/debian-mac.txt Please fix this link. -- James (Jay)

Powerpc specific broken link in the install docs

2002-04-15 Thread James A. Treacy
http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/powerpc/ch-install-methods.??.html contain the link http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11162 which is broken. Some of the translations also contain a link to http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh This link has been timing out for me for over a month. P

Alpha specific broken links in the install docs

2002-04-15 Thread James A. Treacy
The latest version of the install docs have links to some alpha install files that are broken. http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/alpha/ch-install-methods.??.html contains a link to http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-alpha/current/nautilus/images-1.44/rescue.bin and http:

Please fix link with a space in it

2002-04-15 Thread James A. Treacy
Although many browsers accept urls with a space in them, it isn't a good idea. The following removes one from ch-preparing. In boot-floppies/documentation/*/preparing.sgml and boot-floppies/documentation/*/hardware.sgml: s/Parity-Ram/Parity-RAM/ Could someone please make this change and commit i

Links in the release notes to upgrade-

2002-04-15 Thread James A. Treacy
I am working on fixing (or getting fixed) all the broken links in the documentation for woody. The latest doc build fixes a lot of links and the number is now manageable. There are links in in every file of the form http://www.debian.org/releases/woody//release-notes/ch-upgrading.??.html to http:

Broken links in the woody install docs

2002-03-08 Thread James A. Treacy
I have run a url checker over the files in http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/ and the results are in http://people.debian.org/~treacy/woody.documentation Due to some good work from robster, the file is down to 129 lines. Things aren't as bad as it sounds, though, as that only represents 83 bro

Re: Files in the archive with no extension cause problems

2002-02-05 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:37:37PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > This is not really as bad as it sounds. I looked at what would need to > change for the linux file. What would be a good extension, linux.bin? .bin maps to application/octet-stream so this should be fine. I looked through dists/

Files in the archive with no extension cause problems

2002-02-05 Thread James A. Treacy
There are files which boot floppies controls that have no file extension. This causes problems because apache assumes that they have mime type text/plain and newbies don't can't figure out how to download the file. A good example is dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/linux . Try wget -S http://f

Where to find the list of broken links under the releases/ directory of the web site

2000-08-25 Thread James A. Treacy
http://www.debian.org/~treacy/bad_links/releases/stable For some reason, http://www.debian.org/~treacy/bad_links/releases/potato shows somewhat fewer bad links although they point to the same place. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: potato release notes missing

2000-08-20 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 11:16:37PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 04:27:14PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > I disagree, it's useful, having directories without index.html is bad. > > > > I deny it is actually useful. All of its information is more > > completely and clear

Re: Release Notes!!!

2000-08-11 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 09:46:12PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > I'm not sure what good it'll do, but this is the absolute >>last chance<< > for changes to the release notes before release. Josip, who took wonderful > care of this for TC3, is on holidays so isn't available to do this. > It wou

Bad links in the install documents on the website

2000-07-30 Thread James A. Treacy
As one of the webmasters for the Debian web site, I run a urlchecker over the site. There are a lot of broken links in the install documentation. It is not a priority to fix the broken links for previous releases, but the ones for potato should be fixed before the release. You can see the results