Redirect (stable/unstable) issues from nixos.org

[zaiquiriw]

Observations

When trying to use old stable or unstable redirects, the page is not found. (Found while browsing nixpill https://github.com/NixOS/nix-pills/issues/250)

I've found that nixos.org/manual/nix/stable goes to nix.dev/manual/nix/2.22/stable instead of (I assume) the preferred nix.dev/manual/nix/2.18.

Ex. https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/nix-env Redirects to: https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.22/stable/command-ref/nix-env

Related issues:

• nixos-homepage: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/1483 https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/1482
• nix-pills: https://github.com/NixOS/nix-pills/issues/250
• nix.dev: https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/issues/996 (different redirect issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/issues/1005)

Problem

I'm unsure. I believe there is work being done trying to fix the way redirects work (https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/pull/999 this pull request) to address preexisting issues with redirects.

Current Observed Redirects: https://nix.dev/manual/nix/unstable/ -> https://hydra.nixos.org/build/263397466/download/1/manual/ https://nix.dev/manual/nix/stable/ -> https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.18/

Approaches

I wanted to dig into this but unfortunately got quite busy half way though. I'll comment if I get back to looking at this.

Willing to help?

I'm afraid I don't have much experience with how redirects are handled.

Priorities

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