Bug 166134 - RFE: Add kernel man pages (man9) to man-pages RPM.
Summary: RFE: Add kernel man pages (man9) to man-pages RPM.
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: man-pages
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ivana Varekova
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-08-17 09:07 UTC by Gilboa Davara
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-08-25 14:16:36 UTC
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Description Gilboa Davara 2005-08-17 09:07:00 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc3 Firefox/1.0.6

Description of problem:
Current man-pages RPM doesn't include the kernel man (9) pages.
Kernel kernel man pages can be built by:
1. cd /usr/src/linux-<ver> (or cd /usr/src/kernels/linux-<ver>
2. make mandocs
3. make installmandocs. (Will install the man pages under /usr/local/man/man9)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
man-pages-1.67-7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Additional info:
Comment 1 Ivana Varekova 2005-08-25 14:16:36 UTC 
Kernel man pages are quite specialized, the APIs they describe change all the
time so they change quite often and they are often outdated. 
That's why these man pages should not be in man-pages package.
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