[Savannah-hackers] address@hidden: [gnu.org #118372] Moving the manuals]

[Richard Stallman]

do you know what he means by permission errors?
is this problem real?  please report on the situation.

our webmasters must have access to edit ALL web pages on www.gnu.org.
we went to some effort, when setting up savannah, to make that true.
if there are some that the webmasters cannot access, that's a serious
problem.

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[rms - Wed Oct 15 01:42:49 2003]:

> Can you move many of the manuals out of /manual and into .../manual
> subdirectories of the individual packages?

Yes, but it will take some time.

> I think it would work fine to move each subtree without change from
> one place to the other.  I looked at a couple of these, and they use
> relative file names, so they ought to work right when simply moved.
> The only difficulty might be that you need to move them from one
> repository to another.  But it still should not be very hard.

I did a wget of /manual and now have the directory on my hard drive. 
Adding each manual, however, takes a little bit of time commiting it to
cvs.  

I'm also running into permissions errors.  savannah-hackers indicates
that this is because they moved the repository, and the permissions
haven't come out right.  However, they've been unable to fix the problem
after a couple of tries.

Currently, 3 manuals have been successfully added, though I've had to
static link them (i.e. link the actual .html file.  The .symlinks are
not working in the new directories I create, and the default
foo/foo.html index isn't being recognized, but is defaulting to
index.html.  savannah-hackers indicates that I should ask Paul to fix this).

> If you can do this for most of the manuals, that would be very good.
> It would be far less work to move the subtrees than to regenerate them.

I will get all of the manuals posted sooner or later.  I'm doing one or
two a night (it takes about 5-10 minutes per manual), in reverse
alphabetical order, and documenting the ones I can't add because of
permissions, so that Mathieu Roy (savannah-hackers) and I can work on
them all at one time.
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