Bug 1099275
Summary: | mailx documentation has conflicting information about environment vairables and config files | ||||||||||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | GE Scott Knauss <sknauss> | ||||||||
Component: | man-pages-overrides | Assignee: | Jan Chaloupka <jchaloup> | ||||||||
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Iveta Wiedermann <isenfeld> | ||||||||
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||||||
Version: | 6.5 | CC: | isenfeld, jchaloup, klamb, ovasik, pschiffe, thgardne | ||||||||
Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ManPageChange, Patch | ||||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||
Hardware: | All | ||||||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
Whiteboard: | |||||||||||
Fixed In Version: | man-pages-overrides-6.6.2-1.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||||||
Doc Text: |
Cause: incomplete information about unsetting of environment variables were presented
Consequence: information of possible unsetting of environment variables were missing
Fix: information about unsetting of environment variables provided
Result: man page is updated
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Story Points: | --- | ||||||||
Clone Of: | |||||||||||
: | 1109294 (view as bug list) | Environment: | |||||||||
Last Closed: | 2014-10-14 07:27:11 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||||
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||||
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||||
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||||
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Bug Depends On: | |||||||||||
Bug Blocks: | 1109294, 1119276 | ||||||||||
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Description
GE Scott Knauss
2014-05-20 01:54:45 UTC
Does it make sence for ou, Peter, to remove the sentence "A value given in a startup file overrides a value imported from the environment."? Yes, it looks reasonable. Thanks. Created attachment 902912 [details]
mailx.1: environment variables conflict
Removing the sentence.
(In reply to Jan Chaloupka from comment #2) > Does it make sence for ou, Peter, to remove the sentence "A value given in a > startup file overrides a value imported from the environment."? This does NOT sound reasonable to me. I believe that sentence is still true. I believe value GIVEN in a startup file does override a value imported from the environment. The only thing is that a value from the environment can't be unset from the config file, only overriden with a new value. I think the sentence needs to be there or the user will have no idea. I would just repeat the caveat given at the end of the man page here, that's all. Please, don't remove that sentence unless someone has found that it's not true. Created attachment 904655 [details]
mailx-12.4-man-variable.patch
Ah, right. Override doesn't mean only unset. Thanks Thomas. I've updated the patch.
Created attachment 904792 [details]
mailx-12.4-man-variable.patch
fixed grammar
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-2014-1382.html |