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Bug 1057719 - man page should mention that subscribe/unsubscribe existed and are now deprecated
Summary: man page should mention that subscribe/unsubscribe existed and are now deprec...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: subscription-manager
Version: 7.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Deon Ballard
QA Contact: John Sefler
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Blocks: rhsm-rhel70
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-01-24 16:35 UTC by Adrian Likins
Modified: 2014-06-18 00:30 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 12:44:25 UTC
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Red Hat Bugzilla 990195 0 unspecified CLOSED Remove deprecated CLI "subscribe" commands 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC

Internal Links: 990195

Description Adrian Likins 2014-01-24 16:35:48 UTC 
Description of problem:

See https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/253273#comment-546103
and https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/253273 in general.

There is some confusion that subscribe/unsubscribe are referenced heavily in older documentation, but are not in the man page (even thought they still work).

man page should include the commands but reference the newer named replacements
and that the old names are deprecated.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
subscription-manager-1.10.11
Comment 2 Deon Ballard 2014-01-30 03:12:05 UTC 
The product documentation was already scrubbed and updated, so there should be little confusion there. As the links show, the issue is the kbase articles -- but those apply to a *specific version* of RHEL and of RHSM, so there is actually no conflict. (Presumably, the commands on RHEL 6.1 are still the same as the RHEL 6.1 man page shows.)

For a clear understanding of how the commands are changing, however, it is useful to know how the commands have changed. I added a small section in the COMMANDS/OPTIONS section of the man page for deprecated commands, and it is a simple list of what was deprecated (subscribe, unsubscribe, activate) and what replaced it (attach, remove, redeem).

Commit: 5adf26df335d2ffebb7ea4b05412580516974483
Comment 5 Sharath Dwaral 2014-02-03 23:10:07 UTC 
Version

# subscription-manager version
server type: This system is currently not registered.
subscription management server: 0.9.2-1
subscription-manager: 1.10.12-1.el7
python-rhsm: 1.10.12-1.el7


Verification:

>>Man page version:

version 2.8     January 29, 2014    subscription-manager(8)

>>List of Commands:

22. deprecated commands: subscribe, unsubscribe, and activate 


>>Commands and Options:

DEPRECATED COMMANDS
       As the structures of subscription configuration have changed, some of the original management commands have become obsolete. These commands have been replaced with updated commands.

       subscribe
              This has been replaced with attach. A similar registration option, --subscribe, has also be replaced with --autoattach.

       unsubscribe
              This has been replaced with remove.

       activate
              This has been replaced with redeem.


VERIFIED
Comment 6 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 12:44:25 UTC 
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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