Bug 824552

Summary:	Missing modprobe.conf(5) man page
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component:	kmod	Assignee:	kmod development team <kmod-maint>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	jonathan, kmod-maint, msivak, rvokal
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Description Bill Nottingham 2012-05-23 17:57:19 UTC

Description of problem:

This used to exist in modutils/module-init-tools. It doens't exist in kmod, and it probably should.

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

kmod-7-1.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run 'man modprobe.conf'
  
Actual results:

No manual entry for modprobe.conf

Expected results:

a man page

Additional info:

Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2012-05-23 18:21:49 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> This used to exist in modutils/module-init-tools. It doens't exist in kmod,
> and it probably should.

Hm...  maybe.  

kmod doesn't actually parse /etc/modprobe.conf at all.  You can put whatever you want in there and it's utterly ignored.  It _does_ look at anything ending in .conf in /etc/modprobe.d though, and it provides modprobe.d(5) already, which provides the same documentation as the old modprobe.conf(5) man page did.  (In m-i-t, the modprobe.d.sgml source file is just a symlink to modprobe.conf.sgml.)

So, given that it already ships the information required, is that sufficient?  Otherwise, I'm going to wind up making a symlink in the spec file that just points modprobe.conf -> modprobe.d

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2012-05-23 18:25:51 UTC

A spec file symlink so that 'man modprobe.conf' returns the new man page is fine with me.

Comment 3 Josh Boyer 2012-05-23 19:44:12 UTC

Fixed in git.  Will be in an F17 update shortly and rawhide tomorrow.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-05-24 15:05:41 UTC

kmod-7-2.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-8264/kmod-7-2.fc17

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-05-24 15:34:54 UTC

Package kmod-7-2.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing kmod-7-2.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-8264/kmod-7-2.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-06-09 00:06:17 UTC

kmod-7-2.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.