Bug 1564591 - man erl fails with No manual entry for erl
Summary: man erl fails with No manual entry for erl
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: erlang
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Lemenkov
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-04-06 17:26 UTC by Jan Pazdziora
Modified: 2018-10-01 02:46 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: erlang-20.3.8.9-2.fc29 erlang-20.3.8.9-2.fc28
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Last Closed: 2018-09-30 23:25:59 UTC
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Description Jan Pazdziora 2018-04-06 17:26:09 UTC
Description of problem:

Even if /usr/bin/erl is installed, man erl does not display the man page, presumably because the man page files are packaged under /usr/lib64/erlang/man and not under /usr/share/man.

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

erlang-erts-19.3.6.5-1.fc27.x86_64

How reproducible:

Deterministic.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf install /usr/bin/erl
2. which erl
3. man erl

Actual results:

$ which erl
/usr/bin/erl
$ man erl
No manual entry for erl

Expected results:

$ which erl
/usr/bin/erl
$ man erl
erl(1)                           User Commands                          erl(1)

NAME
       erl - The Erlang emulator.

DESCRIPTION
       The erl program starts an Erlang runtime system. The exact details (for
[...]

Additional info:

It's possible to fix this on installed system with

# ln -s /usr/lib64/erlang/man/man1/erl.1 /usr/share/man/man1

but ideally all the man page files that erlang generates should be shipped in a location where they can be easily used.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2018-09-20 18:13:16 UTC
erlang-20.3.8.9-2.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-52e4892c54

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2018-09-20 18:13:23 UTC
erlang-20.3.8.9-2.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-1de15c3fda

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2018-09-21 07:59:30 UTC
erlang-20.3.8.9-2.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-1de15c3fda

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2018-09-21 08:47:39 UTC
erlang-20.3.8.9-2.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-52e4892c54

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2018-09-30 23:25:59 UTC
erlang-20.3.8.9-2.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2018-10-01 02:46:42 UTC
erlang-20.3.8.9-2.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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