Bug 1725720 - "man grubby" tells you not to run it. But grubby is the new official way to change boot options
Summary: "man grubby" tells you not to run it. But grubby is the new official way to ...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grubby
Version: 30
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-07-01 10:10 UTC by Alan Jenkins
Modified: 2020-05-07 10:03 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-05-07 10:03:16 UTC
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Description Alan Jenkins 2019-07-01 10:10:55 UTC
Description of problem:

"man grubby" says grubby is "only intended to be called from shell scripts which can get it right".  But grubby is now the official way to change the boot options.


Expected results:

In an ideal world, "man grubby" should gain a helpful EXAMPLES section.

It should also not tell users that they are wrong to run grubby manually.  Unless my information is wrong, and there is a better way?

My information comes from the official Fedora Magazine:

https://fedoramagazine.org/setting-kernel-command-line-arguments-with-fedora-30/


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grubby-8.40-30.fc30.x86_64

How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Remember vaguely that "grubby" is the way to update boot options.  Run "man grubby".
2. Read through to the end, hoping for some friendly advice.

Actual results:

"
BUGS

The  command  line  syntax  is  more than a little baroque. This probably won't be fixed *** as grubby is only intended to be called from shell scripts which can get it right ***.
"

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2020-04-30 21:39:32 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 30 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 30 on 2020-05-26.
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Comment 2 Javier Martinez Canillas 2020-05-07 10:03:16 UTC
This was fixed in Rawhide. I'll push for F31 if there's another package update for it.


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