Bug 265128 - Various broken links, within manual pages, to pages for ports
Summary: Various broken links, within manual pages, to pages for ports
Status: New
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Manual Pages (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Blocks: 265125
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Reported: 2022-07-10 10:52 UTC by Graham Perrin
Modified: 2022-07-17 13:33 UTC (History)
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Description Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-07-10 10:52:17 UTC 
Soon after the examples at bug 265125 comment 1 and bug 265125 comment 2, I began finding other examples. 

<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=release&hier=7&manpath=FreeBSD> pkg(8) refers to non-existent <https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+13.1-RELEASE>. 

<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ports&sektion=7&manpath=FreeBSD>: 

* eight of eight links for pkg(8) are similarly broken

* broken links for ccache(1), pkg-add(8), pkg-audit(8), pkg-delete(8) 
  and portlint(1).

I wonder, has a single change (or changeset) caused widespread breakage?
Comment 1 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-07-17 13:33:02 UTC 
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #0)

Hmm, 

> … <https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=release&hier=7&manpath=FreeBSD> 
> pkg(8) …

There's no mention of pkg in that page. I had umpteen pages open at the time, the (one) broken link for pkg(8) might have been in a different manual page. 

There _is_ the broken link for svn(1): 

<https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=svn&sektion=1&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+13.1-RELEASE>

For posterity: <https://web.archive.org/web/20220717133103/https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=release&hier=7&manpath=FreeBSD>