diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index aca750fd47..deeb358e0b 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -1941,9 +1941,9 @@
             <para>
                 The <filename>SRC_URI</filename> variable in your recipe must
                 define each unique location for your source files.
-                It is good practice to not hard-code pathnames in an URL used
+                It is good practice to not hard-code version numbers in a URL used
                 in <filename>SRC_URI</filename>.
-                Rather than hard-code these paths, use
+                Rather than hard-code these values, use
                 <filename>${</filename><ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-PV'><filename>PV</filename></ulink><filename>}</filename>,
                 which causes the fetch process to use the version specified in
                 the recipe filename.
@@ -1954,13 +1954,13 @@
 
             <para>
                 Here is a simple example from the
-                <filename>meta/recipes-devtools/cdrtools/cdrtools-native_3.01a20.bb</filename>
+                <filename>meta/recipes-devtools/strace/strace_5.5.bb</filename>
                 recipe where the source comes from a single tarball.
                 Notice the use of the
                 <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-PV'><filename>PV</filename></ulink>
                 variable:
                 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
-     SRC_URI = "ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/cdrtools-${PV}.tar.bz2"
+     SRC_URI = "https://strace.io/files/${PV}/strace-${PV}.tar.xz \
                 </literallayout>
             </para>