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Bug 1418459

Summary:	rear is poorly documented
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Jim Wildman <jwildman>
Component:	rear	Assignee:	Pavel Cahyna <pcahyna>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Jež <djez>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:	Marie Hornickova <mdolezel>
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.3	CC:	ovasik
Target Milestone:	beta	Keywords:	Documentation, EasyFix, Patch
Target Release:	7.6
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	rear-2.4-2.el7	Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	The _rear_ package now includes a user guide This update adds the user guide into the _rear_ package, which provides the Relax-and-Recover tool (ReaR). After installation of _rear_, you can find the user guide in the `/usr/share/doc/rear-2.4/relax-and-recover-user-guide.html` file.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2018-10-30 11:43:19 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Description Jim Wildman 2017-02-01 21:36:08 UTC

There is no documentation of the configuration options other than in the config directories.

in particular the option AUTOEXCLUDE_MULTIPATH which was suggested in a ticket to a customer is not documented in any Red Hat documentation.

I would like to have all the options fully documented.

Comment 2 Pavel Cahyna 2018-07-17 11:12:05 UTC

AUTOEXCLUDE_MULTIPATH is documented in the user guide, https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/doc/user-guide/06-layout-configuration.adoc
One problem is, the user guide is not included in the installed package. This is a problem with the Fedora package as well. I filed a pull request for Fedora, https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rear/pull-request/1 and will look at getting it into the RHEL package.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 11:43:19 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3293