offline Handbook versions still outdated

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 08:54:07PM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2007.02.08 04:53:50 -0800, finwepalantir at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> > I downloaded the file book.html-split.tar.bz2 from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/
> > and it says "Welcome to FreeBSD! This handbook covers the installation and day to day use
> > of FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE." but the online version on the FreeBSD
> > site has been updated to cover the FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. 
> > 
> > The timestamp for those two files in the directory in the central mirrors was 12/01/2006
> > 06:34:00 AM. I can confirm that ftp://ftp.ca.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ and
> > ftp://ftp.no.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ also shown the same timestamp.
> 
> In December the FTP master site died and some of the config was lost.
> The config for synchronizing all the documentation broke then, but
> nobody noticed so the docs haven't been updated since.
>

I noted it (in january), but since the update is on a monthly basis, I
did not overreacted.  I was more concerned by the fact these tarballs
should be updated for the announce of each new release.

-- 
Marc