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Bug 2002033

Summary: guest image is missing man pages
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Ondřej Budai <obudai>
Component: osbuild-composerAssignee: Ondřej Budai <obudai>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Wei Shi <wshi>
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Version: 8.5CC: lmiksik
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Last Closed: 2021-11-09 18:47:01 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Ondřej Budai 2021-09-07 18:34:57 UTC
RHEL guest images built for 8.5 are missing man pages. /usr/bin/man is installed but /usr/share/man doesn't contain any useful content.

This can be reproduced by booting rhel-guest-image-8.5-1000.x86_64.qcow2 and running e.g. man man:

$ man man
No manual entry for man
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This bug was caused by accidentally installing all rpms with --excludedocs option that blocks installation of all man pages.

We're currently working on a fix upstream that should be hopefully trivial.

Correct behavior can be observed on e.g. rhel-guest-image-8.5-683.x86_64.qcow2, man man on this image successfully show the man page for man itself.

Comment 4 Ondřej Budai 2021-09-09 12:26:23 UTC
The PR fixing this regression is ready upstream.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-09 18:47:01 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 (osbuild bug fix and enhancement update), 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-2021:4273