From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Firefox/1.0.7 (Ubuntu package 1.0.7) Description of problem: Using rpm to query the contents of the following package shows that there is not a valid man page for efibootmgr: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ia64/Fedora/RPMS/elilo-3.4-11.ia64.rpm I checked on one of my Debian systems and there does appear to be a proper man page for this program with the following comment at the bottom: "This man page was generated by dann frazier <dannf> for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system, but may be used by others." I believe that it should be standard packaging policy to have man pages for any binary located in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, and /usr/sbin. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): elilo-3.4-11 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run "man efibootmgr" and see if a proper man page is displayed. Actual Results: # man efibootmgr No manual entry for efibootmgr Expected Results: Proper man page should be displayed. Additional info:
Created attachment 119382 [details] Man page from debian
Matt -- want to add it to upstream efibootmgr and then I'll pull down a new tarball? :)
It's already in the upstream efibootmgr. I was glad that Dann wrote it. It's a packaging bug in the elilo RPM script that it's not installing the manpage already in the package. Something like this (untested, may not be to usual RPM spec standards): --- elilo.spec.~1.14.~ 2005-03-26 21:53:25.000000000 -0600 +++ elilo.spec 2005-09-28 13:42:15.000000000 -0500 @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/sbin install -m 755 efibootmgr-%{efibootmgr_ver}/src/efibootmgr/efibootmgr $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/sbin +install -m 644 efibootmgr-%{efibootmgr_ver}/src/man/man8/efibootmgr.8 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/man/man8 %clean rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT @@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ %doc docs/* README.* LIMITATIONS ChangeLog efibootmgr-% {efibootmgr_ver}/efibootmgr-doc /boot/efi /usr/sbin/efibootmgr +%doc /usr/share/man/man8/efibootmgr.8 %changelog * Thu Mar 3 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj> - 3.4-11
That'll teach me to look closer. Thanks, will add and do a build
Jeremy and Matt, Thanks for the quick responses! Is there any chance this fix can be marked for inclusion into rhel4u2 or rhel4u3? Thanks, Bryan