Bug 553440
| Summary: | pdftops man page lists wrong location for xpdfrc config file | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Lee Revell <rlrevell> |
| Component: | man-pages-overrides | Assignee: | Peter Schiffer <pschiffe> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Iveta Wiedermann <isenfeld> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 5.4 | CC: | isenfeld, mclasen, ovasik, pschiffe |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ManPageChange, Patch |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
Cause: Various manual pages from poppler package contained incorrect path to the configuration file and references to the non-existent manual pages.
Consequence: Incorrect documentation.
Fix: Fixed invalid path to the configuration file and removed invalid references in the poppler manual pages.
Result: Correct documentation.
|
Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2013-10-01 00:38:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 965689 | ||
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in a release. 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-2013-1357.html |
Description of problem: The pdftops man page says: CONFIGURATION FILE Pdftops reads a configuration file at startup. It first tries to find the user’s private config file, ~/.xpdfrc. If that doesn’t exist, it looks for a system-wide config file, /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc. See the xpdfrc(5) man page for details. BUT, pdftops looks for the file at /etc/xpdfrc: open("/root/.xpdfrc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/xpdfrc", O_RDONLY) = 3 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.5.4-4.el5 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. man pdftops 2. create config file at the location listed 3. test, it will be ignored Actual results: Man page lists incorrect config file location Expected results: Man page lists incorrect config file location Additional info: