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Bug 532736

Summary: emerge suggests obsolete URL for information about blocked ebuilds
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Jonas Stein <jstein>
Component: Core - Interface (emerge)Assignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: grknight, jstein
Priority: Normal Keywords: InVCS
Version: 2.2   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 484436    

Description Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2014-12-16 19:50:02 UTC
# emerge --update --newuse --keep-going @world

returns [..]

For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following
section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked


This URL is redirected to 
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86#blocked

but it has no section "blocked"

====

# emerge --version
Portage 2.2.14 (python 3.3.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.16.1-gentoo-gd7abc96-dirty x86_64)
Comment 1 Brian Evans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-12-16 19:54:31 UTC
The new URL should be https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Portage#Blocked_packages with the move to the wiki
Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2014-12-20 17:01:01 UTC
This is fixed in git:

https://github.com/gentoo/portage/commit/17bc89c5db424c3f04af28a1da5bf90a943ac368
Comment 3 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2015-12-18 07:02:35 UTC
do you think, we can close the bug now?
Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2015-12-18 16:04:57 UTC
Released in 2.2.16.