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Bug 1300791 - cosmetic fix to the .TH titles in subscription-manager man pages
Summary: cosmetic fix to the .TH titles in subscription-manager man pages
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: subscription-manager
Version: 6.8
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: William Poteat
QA Contact: John Sefler
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-01-21 17:41 UTC by John Sefler
Modified: 2016-05-10 20:39 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-05-10 20:39:27 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2016:0797 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE python-rhsm and subscription-manager bug fix and enhancement update 2017-01-06 16:31:50 UTC

Description John Sefler 2016-01-21 17:41:05 UTC 
Description of problem:

Looking at the source code for the man pages, a dash was used to effectively remove the left and center footer of a man page which are often used for versioning information.  Rather than use a dash which makes the page appear to have extraneous characters, let's just pass an empty "" string.  Currently the footers generally look like this (notice the dashes)...

[root@jsefler-6 ~]# man subscription-manager | tail -1
-                                      -               subscription-manager(8)



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
subscription-manager-1.16.8-1.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
From the git cloned subscription-manager source code....
[jsefler@jseflerT540p man]$ grep "\.TH" *.8
install-num-migrate-to-rhsm.8:.TH "install-num-migrate-to-rhsm" "8"
rct.8:.TH RCT 8 - - "RHSM Certificate Tool"
rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm.8:.TH "rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm" "8"
rhsmcertd.8:.TH rhsmcertd 8 - - "Subscription Management"
rhsm-debug.8:.TH RHSM-DEBUG 8 - - "RHSM Debug Tool"
rhsm-icon.8:.TH rhsm-icon 8
sat5to6.8:.TH "sat5to6" "8"
subscription-manager.8:.TH subscription-manager 8 - - "Subscription Management"
subscription-manager-gui.8:.TH subscription-manager-gui 8 - - "Subscription Management"



Actual results:
above

Expected results:
for each of the man pages, I would suggest changing these as follows (Before/After)...

install-num-migrate-to-rhsm.8:.TH "install-num-migrate-to-rhsm" "8"
install-num-migrate-to-rhsm.8:.TH "install-num-migrate-to-rhsm" "8" "" "" "Migration Tool"

rct.8:.TH RCT 8 - - "RHSM Certificate Tool"
rct.8:.TH RCT 8 "" "" "RHSM Certificate Tool"

rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm.8:.TH "rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm" "8"
rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm.8:.TH "rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm" "8" "" "" "Migration Tool"

rhsmcertd.8:.TH rhsmcertd 8 - - "Subscription Management"
rhsmcertd.8:.TH rhsmcertd 8 "" "" "Subscription Management"

rhsm-debug.8:.TH RHSM-DEBUG 8 - - "RHSM Debug Tool"
rhsm-debug.8:.TH RHSM-DEBUG 8 "" "" "RHSM Debug Tool"

rhsm-icon.8:.TH rhsm-icon 8
rhsm-icon.8:.TH rhsm-icon 8 "" "" "RHSM Desktop Icon"

sat5to6.8:.TH "sat5to6" "8"
sat5to6.8:.TH "sat5to6" "8" "" "" "Migration Tool"

subscription-manager.8:.TH subscription-manager 8 - - "Subscription Management"
subscription-manager.8:.TH subscription-manager 8 "" "" "Subscription Management"

subscription-manager-gui.8:.TH subscription-manager-gui 8 - - "Subscription Management"
subscription-manager-gui.8:.TH subscription-manager-gui 8 "" "" "Subscription Management"




Additional info:
Comment 1 William Poteat 2016-02-05 19:51:00 UTC 
master commit 3b462b9db938a29c4c501c32cc0290dbb32e1d01
Comment 4 John Sefler 2016-03-08 17:41:11 UTC 
(In reply to William Poteat from comment #1)
> master commit 3b462b9db938a29c4c501c32cc0290dbb32e1d01

I believe this is the correct commit
master commit a8997dd0c1328e86065dfae479cc45008da6489c

    1300791: Update man page footers
Comment 5 John Sefler 2016-03-08 17:52:29 UTC 
Verifying Version...
[root@jsefler-6 ~]# rpm -q subscription-manager
subscription-manager-1.16.8-4.el6.x86_64


[root@jsefler-6 ~]# man rct | tail -1
                                                                        RCT(8)
[root@jsefler-6 ~]# 
[root@jsefler-6 ~]# man rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm | tail -1
                                                rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm(8)
[root@jsefler-6 ~]# 
[root@jsefler-6 ~]# man rhsmcertd | tail -1
                                                                  rhsmcertd(8)
[root@jsefler-6 ~]# 
[root@jsefler-6 ~]# man rhsm-debug | tail -1
                                                                 RHSM-DEBUG(8)
[root@jsefler-6 ~]# 
[root@jsefler-6 ~]# man rhsm-icon | tail -1
                                                                  rhsm-icon(8)
[root@jsefler-6 ~]# 
[root@jsefler-6 ~]# man subscription-manager | tail -1
                                                       subscription-manager(8)
[root@jsefler-6 ~]# 
[root@jsefler-6 ~]# man subscription-manager-gui | tail -1
                                                   subscription-manager-gui(8)


VERIFIED: The man page footers no longer have a "-" placeholder.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-10 20:39:27 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.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-0797.html
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