Bug 2216850 - `man dnf` does not work
Summary: `man dnf` does not work
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf5
Version: 39
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2023-06-22 20:34 UTC by Vít Ondruch
Modified: 2023-08-16 08:07 UTC (History)
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Description Vít Ondruch 2023-06-22 20:34:44 UTC
`man dnf` does not work while `dnf` command is available. Why is there `dnf` command and not the associated manual page?

I was protesting against introducing package named `dnf5` precisely because of the inconsistencies and here we go.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Marek Blaha 2023-07-20 08:41:31 UTC
Definitely valid. As a temporary workaround please use `man dnf5` and `man dnf5-<command>` man pages.

My proposal for the final resolution of the issue, while maintaining parallel instalability of dnf4/dnf5 is following:

1. move dnf4 man pages from dnf.rpm package to python3-dnf.rpm and rename them to avoid file conflicts with dnf5.rpm
2. dnf.rpm will only own symlinks dnf.8.gz -> dnf4.8.gz
3. dnf5.rpm which obsoletes dnf.rpm will own symlinks to already existing dnf5 man pages dnf.8.gz -> dnf5.8.gz

Comment 2 Fedora Release Engineering 2023-08-16 08:07:52 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle.
Changing version to 39.


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