old links to patches

[Adam Gołębiowski]

Elan Ruusamäe pisze:
> On Friday 08 May 2009 13:27:23 Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
>> On Friday 08 May 2009 13:19:04 Tomasz Pala wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 12:33:46 +0300, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
>>>>>> please give (at least) one sample, so i could write 404 handler in
>>>>>> apache to solve this problem.
>>>> i mean, a url to resource which contains link to _that_ link.
>>> Like this?
>>>
>>> http://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-dev/2009-April/006507.html
>> yep.
>>
>> for now added redirect rules:
>>
>>     RedirectMatch permanent ^/cgi-bin/cvsweb/SOURCES/(.*)$
>> http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/SOURCES.old/$1 RedirectMatch
>> permanent ^/cgi-bin/cvsweb\.cgi/SOURCES/(.*)$
>> http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/SOURCES.old/$1
>>
>> is this sufficent, or we should rather redirect to new location in
>> /packages?
>>
>> i mean if you gave old link, then you likely want to point it to the
>> resource available at that time, which this SOURCES.old redirection
>> satisfies. however this will all go void if the SOURCES.old tree is removed
>> someday.
> 
> ping?

Seems fine for me, I provided URLs like:

	http://cvs.pld-linux.org/SOURCES/foo.patch
	http://cvs.pld-linux.org/SOURCES/foo.patch?rev=HEAD

as in:
	http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=9697

and the redirect works for these as well.

Thanks.