Dead link in handbook

Fedde Schaeffer fedde.schaeffer at gmail.com
Sat Feb 20 08:17:23 UTC 2016


Good day,

On
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
, in a note under ‘4.5.3.1. Upgrading Ports Using Portmaster’, I found a
link to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portmaster&sektion=8 , at
which no manpage could be found. I believe this is because the default
manpath includes only the base FreeBSD system and not ports, as
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portmaster&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+Ports+10.2-RELEASE
and
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portmaster&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+10.2-RELEASE+and+Ports
do display it. Is it difficult to adjust this without unnoticedly making the
link point to an old version of the page once a new release comes out?

Thanks,
Fedde Schaeffer, a long-time laptop Linux (Debianoid) user who was forced
to try out Mac OS X at work and is now curious to try if proper FreeBSD
might suit him


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