Bug 1403934 - [RFE] dnf provide man page names as dnf-<subcommand>
Summary: [RFE] dnf provide man page names as dnf-<subcommand>
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: rpm-software-management
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-12-12 16:21 UTC by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Modified: 2023-08-22 08:12 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2023-08-22 07:58:46 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2016-12-12 16:21:20 UTC 
Description of problem:
It's harder to find the right dnf man page than it should be. For example, if I want to look up dnf repoquery, I need to know that this is a plugin, and then use tab-completion to find the the man page name dnf.plugin.repoquery.

Please consider doing what git² does: provide the man pages dnf-<subcommand> for all dnf subcommands, so that 'man dnf <subcommand>' works. This is very convenient for users.

² also iproute, btrfstools, and a bunch of others.
Comment 1 Jaroslav Mracek 2023-08-22 07:58:46 UTC 
The feature is implemented by DNF5 that is available in Fedora 38. We do not have plan to implement it in DNF, because it is close to EOL.
Comment 2 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2023-08-22 08:12:38 UTC 
$ rpm -ql dnf5|grep man                                               
/usr/share/man/man7/dnf5-comps.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/dnf5-installroot.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/dnf5-specs.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-advisory.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-autoremove.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-clean.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-distro-sync.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-downgrade.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-download.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-environment.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-group.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-install.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-leaves.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-makecache.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-mark.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-reinstall.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-remove.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-repo.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-repoquery.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-search.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-swap.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5-upgrade.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf5.8.gz

Wonderful, thank you!
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