Bug 816530

Summary: No manpages for grub2
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Florian Ermisch <floh.edo>
Component: grub2Assignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 16CC: bcl, dennis, mads, pjones
Target Milestone: ---   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-04-26 10:53:06 UTC Type: Bug
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Florian Ermisch 2012-04-26 10:39:04 UTC 
Description of problem:
-bash-4.2$ grub2-
grub2-bin2h            grub2-mkdevicemap      grub2-mkrescue
grub2-editenv          grub2-mkfont           grub2-probe
grub2-fstest           grub2-mkimage          grub2-reboot
grub2-install          grub2-mklayout         grub2-script-check
grub2-kbdcomp          grub2-mknetdir         grub2-set-default
grub2-menulst2cfg      grub2-mkpasswd-pbkdf2  grub2-setup
grub2-mkconfig         grub2-mkrelpath  

but

-bash-4.2$ apropos grub
grubby (8)           - command line tool for configuring grub, lilo...
-bash-4.2$ apropos grub2
-bash-4.2$ 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
-bash-4.2$ yum info grub2
Loaded plugins: security
Installed Packages
Name        : grub2
Arch        : x86_64
Epoch       : 1
Version     : 1.99
Release     : 13.fc16.2
Size        : 5.0 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : updates
[...]

How reproducible:
Every Fedora 16 installation?

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 16
2. man grub2 || apropos grub2 
  
Actual results:
No manpages.

Expected results:
At least basic manpages poiting to the texinfo I just found (`info grub2`).

Additional info:
Grub2 manpages do exist: Ubuntu includes them (with s/grub2-/grub-/ on the names) and /usr/share/doc/grub2-1.99/README.Fedora points to http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/.
Comment 1 Mads Kiilerich 2012-04-26 10:53:06 UTC 
Fedora do not have any policy requiring man pages for all tools.

Grub upstream is dogmatic GNU project and use info - not man pages.

The best solution would be if other distributions upstreamed their man pages and got them maintained - then they would be included in Fedora.