| Summary: | Yum color option parser does not work or manpage is broken | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | abugreporter |
| Component: | yum | Assignee: | Seth Vidal <skvidal> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 14 | CC: | ffesti, james.antill, maxamillion, pmatilai, tla |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-05-24 21:08:46 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
every option in yum.conf has the format option=<value> So it would be a little strange to think that just typing 'color' would be ok :) But you are right, it not described in the yum.conf man file, that you should use option=<value>, just descriptions of the options and the values. |
Description of problem: If one reads just man yum.conf it is easy to believe that the line containing color is correct. ######################## [main] color <other main stuff> ######################### The manpage says: color Display colorized output automatically, depending on the output terminal, always (using ANSI codes) or never. Command- line option: --color The first word is in bold and there is no mention of having to assign it a value and if any which are the valid values. Now, I did find where the valid values are documented (man yum), but one should be able to read the manpage to get the grammar that is valid for a configuration file from just one manpage. This manpage fails at this point. So, you can either change the software or you can change the documentation. The error you get is something like this: CRITICAL:yum.cli:Config Error: Parsing file failed: File contains parsing errors: file:///etc/yum.conf [line 11]: color