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Bug 108264 - app-doc/howto-html-20050504 has broken links
Summary: app-doc/howto-html-20050504 has broken links
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
URL: http://tldp.org
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Reported: 2005-10-06 05:27 UTC by Peter Hyman
Modified: 2005-10-06 06:57 UTC (History)
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Description Peter Hyman 2005-10-06 05:27:54 UTC
Really minor, but an annoyance. Three sets of files have erroneous META
redirects which cause pages not to be found. They are:
peter@mars /usr/doc/howto/html $ grep -rl "URL=.*/LDP" *
Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO/index.html
Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO.html

Consultants-HOWTO/index.html
Consultants-HOWTO.html

HOWTO-HOWTO/index.html

In all cases, they look for a URL location that does not exist.
peter@mars /usr/doc/howto/html $ grep "URL=.*/LDP" *
Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO/index.html:<META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT="0;
URL=../../LDP/abs/html/">
Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO.html:<META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT="0; URL=../LDP/abs/html/">
Consultants-HOWTO/index.html:<META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT="0;
URL=../../LDP/lcg/html/">
Consultants-HOWTO.html:<META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT="0; URL=../LDP/lcg/html/">
HOWTO-HOWTO/index.html:<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH"
CONTENT="0;URL=../../LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/">

These should either be removed or replaced with the correct files.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO/index.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/lcg/html/index.html
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html

A PITA, I know...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on HOWTO/html/{one of the above}
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
URL not found error due to META redirect to non-existent location

Expected Results:  
Doc opens properly

Recommend patching in the entire files and not redirecting to the web since some
people may not be online all the time. Marking minor since there are only three
files bad out of so many! Don't know if this occurs with the text or pdf howtos
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-10-06 06:30:15 UTC
Report this problem upstream, please. Gentoo does not patch the files in any way...
Comment 2 Peter Hyman 2005-10-06 06:57:19 UTC
reported upstream to editors@en.tldp.org