Broken link in manual

Benjamin Kaduk kaduk at MIT.EDU
Tue Oct 2 19:53:04 UTC 2012


On Sun, 30 Sep 2012, Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm currently reading the FreeBSD manual for switching from Arch Linux to 
> FreeBSD. In 5.5.4.3 [1] the link to the portmanager manual page is broken.
>
> 1: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
>
> I hope sending this information via the mailinglist is appropriate.

Hi Niklaas,

This is an appropriate list, yes.

It seems that the issue was addressed in SVN revision 39642, by means of 
removing the portmanager section entirely.  Note that portmanager itself 
has been marked as deprecated for almost a month.

Thanks for the pointer,

Ben Kaduk



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