Dead link in handbook

[Warren Block]

On Sat, 20 Feb 2016, Fedde Schaeffer wrote:

> 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.

Yes, this has been a problem for a while.  I have just committed a 
change that will give a default manpath that includes ports.  The HTML 
document has been rebuilt, so please refresh and test that link again.

> 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?

The documents are rebuilt frequently, so this should not be a problem. 
Old archived versions of the documents will have links to older 
releases, but that is pretty much expected for old documents.

> 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

Welcome, and thank you!