Bug 1033784

Summary:	dracut.conf man page not updated along with dracut in RHEL 6.5
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Ryan Sawhill <rsawhill>
Component:	dracut	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.6	CC:	atodorov, dracut-maint-list, mganisin, pschiffe, rsawhill
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Documentation, EasyFix, ManPageChange
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: Not all changes to dracut were documented in the man pages. Consequence: No documentation for newly added features. Fix: Documentation was added. Result: Complete documentation.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2014-10-14 07:05:20 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Description Ryan Sawhill 2013-11-22 22:19:32 UTC

Description of problem:

  Looks like we need to update the dracut.conf man page to accomodate
  the new version of dracut we shipped in RHEL 6.5. Might need to update
  dracut man page too.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  dracut-004-336.el6

Additional info:

  It appears that the dracut.conf man page (not sure about dracut man page
  itself) was not updated to reflect the new features. I noticed this
  because I was looking for a way to make dracut always include certain
  arbitrary files in the initramfs it builds (e.g., luks key files) and
  I found such an option in the Fedora dracut.conf man page (a directive
  called "install_items") which DOES work with dracut.conf in RHEL 6.5,
  but which isn't in the man page there.

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2014-05-12 19:21:32 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product
Management has requested further review of this request by
Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux release for currently deployed products.
This request is not yet committed for inclusion in a release.

Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2014-05-28 14:20:21 UTC

please test:
http://people.redhat.com/harald/downloads/dracut/dracut-004-347.el6/

Comment 4 Harald Hoyer 2014-06-02 14:44:31 UTC

http://people.redhat.com/harald/downloads/dracut/dracut-004-349.el6/

Comment 5 Alexander Todorov 2014-06-05 19:43:29 UTC

# man dracut.conf

       install_items+=" <file>[ <file> ...] "

              Specify additional files to include in the initramfs, separated by spaces.


with dracut-004-349.el6.noarch. 

missing man page section for install_items is referenced in comment #0 so I'm moving this to VERIFIED. Please open another bug report(s) for other missing sections or options.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 07:05:20 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1492.html