Re: [PATCH] Revise the diagnostic output produced when config.guess fails.

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 10:34:11AM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2024, at 9:51 AM, Alyssa Ross wrote:
> >> Turns out /software/config is under our control, in the same way that
> >> /software/autoconf is.  It should be sufficient to apply this patch to the
> >> config-web CVS repository (https://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=config):
> >>
> >> --- /dev/null      2024-05-14 09:16:42.181936154 -0400
> >> +++ .htaccess      2024-05-14 09:32:57.063158152 -0400
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> >> +Redirect permanent /software/config/config.guess 
> >> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/config.guess
> >> +Redirect permanent /software/config/config.sub   
> >> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/config.sub
> >> +Redirect permanent /software/config/index.html   
> >> https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
> >> +Redirect permanent /software/config/             
> >> https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
> >
> > If your intention is to be able to update URLs if cgit goes away etc.,
> > you might want to reconsider permanent redirects.  Permanent can be
> > /very/ permanent, and user agents, including browsers, will cache them
> > forever, and never see an updated redirect.
> 
> Oh, good catch, thanks.  Dmitry, please remove the word "permanent" from each 
> line
> of the above .htaccess before committing.

Applied, thanks.


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