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Bug 1628974 - nftables: man page missing info about vmap
Summary: nftables: man page missing info about vmap
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: nftables
Version: 7.4
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Phil Sutter
QA Contact: Tomas Dolezal
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 1711273
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-09-14 14:33 UTC by Davide F Bragalone
Modified: 2019-08-06 13:06 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: nftables-0.8-14.el7
Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
: 1711273 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-08-06 13:06:14 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2019:2215 0 None None None 2019-08-06 13:06:24 UTC

Description Davide F Bragalone 2018-09-14 14:33:21 UTC 
Description of problem:
vmap is not documented in nft man page, there are just it is only in some examples).


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nftables-0.8-7.el7


Not sure if adding info in man pages is the best solution here. If not, I can ask the doc-team to elaborate more about nft usage in the next RHEL8 networking documentation.

Thanks,
Davide
Comment 2 Phil Sutter 2018-09-14 16:00:00 UTC 
Hi Davide,

(In reply to Davide F Bragalone from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> vmap is not documented in nft man page, there are just it is only in some
> examples).
> 
> 
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> nftables-0.8-7.el7
> 
> 
> Not sure if adding info in man pages is the best solution here. If not, I
> can ask the doc-team to elaborate more about nft usage in the next RHEL8
> networking documentation.

Yes, lack of vmap statement is a deficit in nft man page and I think it is the best spot to document it.

Meanwhile you may point the customer at https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Dictionaries (wiki.nftables.org is a good resource in general).

Cheers, Phil
Comment 3 Phil Sutter 2018-09-28 17:04:44 UTC 
Since this is a feature request, planning for this to be resolved in RHEL7.7.
Comment 7 Phil Sutter 2019-04-03 18:08:51 UTC 
Upstream commit to backport:

commit 3b29acc8f29944c5cf34259f2e2b5b40b4d0ccdd (origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Phil Sutter <phil>
Date:   Tue Apr 2 15:36:42 2019 +0200

    doc: Add minimal description of (v)map statements
    
    Although quite useful, these were missing in man page. Content loosely
    based on wiki documentation.
    
    Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil>
    Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo>
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 13:06:14 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-2019:2215
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