Bug 2216850

Summary:	`man dnf` does not work
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Vít Ondruch <vondruch>
Component:	dnf5	Assignee:	Jan Kolarik <jkolarik>
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Version:	39	CC:	amatej, jkolarik, nsella, pkratoch, rpm-software-management, valdis.kletnieks
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Description Vít Ondruch 2023-06-22 20:34:44 UTC

`man dnf` does not work while `dnf` command is available. Why is there `dnf` command and not the associated manual page?

I was protesting against introducing package named `dnf5` precisely because of the inconsistencies and here we go.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Marek Blaha 2023-07-20 08:41:31 UTC

Definitely valid. As a temporary workaround please use `man dnf5` and `man dnf5-<command>` man pages.

My proposal for the final resolution of the issue, while maintaining parallel instalability of dnf4/dnf5 is following:

1. move dnf4 man pages from dnf.rpm package to python3-dnf.rpm and rename them to avoid file conflicts with dnf5.rpm
2. dnf.rpm will only own symlinks dnf.8.gz -> dnf4.8.gz
3. dnf5.rpm which obsoletes dnf.rpm will own symlinks to already existing dnf5 man pages dnf.8.gz -> dnf5.8.gz

Comment 2 Fedora Release Engineering 2023-08-16 08:07:52 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle.
Changing version to 39.

Comment 3 Jan Kolarik 2024-04-02 11:28:53 UTC

Following PRs were prepared to fix this issue:
- dnf5:             https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5/pull/1366
- dnf:              https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/2072
- dnf-plugins-core: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf-plugins-core/pull/529

Comment 4 Aoife Moloney 2024-11-08 10:54:14 UTC

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Comment 5 amatej 2024-11-11 05:19:35 UTC

Fixed by the linked PRs.