Bug 2058634

Summary:	alternatives -h have misleading description of --set
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	jiri vanek <jvanek>
Component:	chkconfig	Assignee:	Lukáš Nykrýn <lnykryn>
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Description jiri vanek 2022-02-25 13:35:34 UTC

Description of problem:
 alternatives -h contains:
...
 alternatives --set <name> <path> 
...

which is misleading, it should be
 alternatives --set <name> <path/family>

Comment 1 jiri vanek 2022-02-25 13:38:56 UTC

Similarly, the man page is wrong

Comment 3 jiri vanek 2022-02-25 14:35:19 UTC

https://github.com/fedora-sysv/chkconfig/pull/70