Bug 456307

Summary: whiptail: missing man page and typos in usage message
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Petr Šplíchal <psplicha>
Component: newtAssignee: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: 5.3CC: jbastian, ohudlick, rvokal, tao
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patch for Makefile.in to install man page
none
patch for newt.spec to include man page in RPM
none
patch to convert tutorial.sgml to more human-readable PDF and HTML formats
none
patch to correct whiptail usage none

Description Petr Šplíchal 2008-07-22 18:21:09 UTC 
Description of problem:

The usage message of whiptail command contains several typos (listed bellow) and
the manual page is missing completely.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
newt-0.52.2-12.el5.x86_64

Usage message typos:

--separate-output <fd> (there is no argument for --separate-output option)
force verical scrollbars (typo)
-defaultno (should be --defaultno)
Comment 1 Jeff Bastian 2009-01-22 21:16:15 UTC 
Created attachment 329738 [details]
patch for Makefile.in to install man page
Comment 2 Jeff Bastian 2009-01-22 21:17:31 UTC 
Created attachment 329739 [details]
patch for newt.spec to include man page in RPM
Comment 3 Jeff Bastian 2009-01-22 21:19:36 UTC 
The patches in comment 1 and comment 2 include the man page in the RPM.  They do NOT correct the typos in the usage message.
Comment 4 Jeff Bastian 2009-01-22 22:06:41 UTC 
Created attachment 329743 [details]
patch to convert tutorial.sgml to more human-readable PDF and HTML formats
Comment 5 Jeff Bastian 2009-01-22 22:48:11 UTC 
Created attachment 329748 [details]
patch to correct whiptail usage
Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2009-03-26 17:05:48 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your
support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?".
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2009-10-07 08:40:29 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1482.html