[MERGE][1.0][trivial] Fix link to packs in doc/developers/index.txt

Matt Nordhoff mnordhoff at mattnordhoff.com
Wed Dec 5 19:53:10 GMT 2007


John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Except that directory is generated directly from the sources. I'm not
> manually maintaining that directory. So we would have to check in the
> fix to bzr.dev itself. And there isn't a strictly kosher way of doing
> redirects without editing Apache configuration files....
> 
> Unless we want a knitrepo.html which has a meta Redirect tag in it,
> which I don't think we could create easily from a source ReST file.
> (Though we probably could just check in an existing .html file).
> 
> And the people who control the global Apache configs are the Canonical
> Sys admins, which requires filing an rt request, explaining to them what
> we really need and why we need it, etc.
> 
> What we *could* do is add a .htaccess file with a redirect (I maintain
> one for the windows download files.)
> 
> But, as the easy way to update the documentation is:
> 
> make html
> rsync -av --delete doc/html /srv/.../doc/
> 
> That will end up nuking the .htaccess file (you could not use --delete,
> but then stale files wouldn't get deleted, etc, etc.)
> 
> Anyway, I won't disagree that fixing it for some time would be a 20s
> fix. Actually fixing it would be a lot more involved. And not really
> worth the time it would take.

Ahh. I was hoping that throwing up a .htaccess on the server would be
"good enough".

Fixing it for some time would be an improvement over the current situation.

Anyway, ignoring what to do with knitpack.html, you still need to get
packrepo.html working.
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