Bug 461109

Summary:	man page for tracert is missing
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Milos Malik <mmalik>
Component:	traceroute	Assignee:	Dmitry Butskoy <dmitry>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8	CC:	dmitry, jskala
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Description Milos Malik 2008-09-04 09:05:56 UTC

Description of problem:
We ship the package with 3 utilities and with 1 man page, which should be common for all of them. However, there is no symbolic link for tracert man page.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
traceroute-2.0.10-1.fc8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
$ man tracert
No manual entry for tracert
$ echo $?
1
$ ls -l /usr/share/man/man8/tracer*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   15 2008-05-12 10:53 /usr/share/man/man8/traceroute6.8.gz -> traceroute.8.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5445 2007-09-26 14:24 /usr/share/man/man8/traceroute.8.gz
$ 

Actual results:
There is no man page for tracert utility in the package.

Expected results:
There is a man page for tracert utility in the package.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dmitry Butskoy 2008-09-04 12:10:24 UTC

Formally, we do not support "tracert". (I am the upstream maintainer too).

The idea (certainly a little questionable) was to help the network admins, who previously worked under windoze and mechanically typed (under a pressure) "tracert" instead of "traceroute".

In general, "tracert" is not just "traceroute -I" -- it has slightly different output etc. Thus we do not provide "tracert" now, hence "man tracert" should not confuse users about actually not implemented utility...

Perhaps remove /bin/tracert symlink at all? Or to leave things as is?

Comment 2 Dmitry Butskoy 2008-09-09 17:34:27 UTC

Additionally, the placing such a symlink in /bin (not /usr/bin) seems a little bit ugly. /bin is not a place for such things.

I am going to drop /bin/tracert. Any comments?

Comment 3 Milos Malik 2008-09-10 07:27:53 UTC

Dropping /bin/tracert seems reasonable.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-09-17 16:19:46 UTC

traceroute-2.0.12-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/traceroute-2.0.12-1.fc9

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-09-17 16:22:00 UTC

traceroute-2.0.12-1.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/traceroute-2.0.12-1.fc8

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2008-09-25 00:16:00 UTC

traceroute-2.0.12-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update traceroute'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-8277

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2008-09-25 00:17:51 UTC

traceroute-2.0.12-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update traceroute'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-8288

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-10-03 22:28:15 UTC

traceroute-2.0.12-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2008-10-03 22:34:24 UTC

traceroute-2.0.12-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.