Bug 698151

Summary:	Remove documentation for "order" keyword in /etc/host.conf manpage
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Siddhesh Poyarekar <spoyarek>
Component:	man-pages-overrides	Assignee:	Peter Schiffer <pschiffe>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.0	CC:	mnewsome, varekova
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	ManPageChange
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	The host.conf(5) manual page contained a description for the unsupported "order" keyword. With this update, the description of the "order" keyword is removed.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	698149
Clones:	698153 714078 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-12-06 11:46:13 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	698149
Bug Blocks:	698153, 699701, 714078, 743047

Description Siddhesh Poyarekar 2011-04-20 10:21:43 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #698149 +++

Description of problem:

glibc has been ignoring the "order" keyword in /etc/host.conf for some years now, but the manpage for host.conf still documents the option without mentioning that it does not do anything any more.

The order keyword support was removed in the following commit upstream:

http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=b9c65d0902e5890c4f025b574725154032f8120a

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man host.conf
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
man page has information for the "order" keyword

Expected results:
man page should not have information for the "order" keyword or at least mention that the keyword does not do anything and that one needs to use /etc/nsswitch.conf now for this functionality.

Additional info:

Comment 4 Eliska Slobodova 2011-09-29 11:13:38 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
The host.conf(5) manual page contained a description for the unsupported "order" keyword. With this update, the description of the "order" keyword is removed.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 11:46:13 UTC

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-2011-1571.html