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Bug 38754

Summary: Missing man pages
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Michele Baldessari <mbaldessari>
Component: iprouteAssignee: Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 7.1CC: mikem, pekkas, rvokal
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beginnings of ip(8) man page. Sigh. none

Description Michele Baldessari 2001-05-02 14:58:05 UTC 
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The iproute package has no manpages for the commands (iproute, tc)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -ql iproute |grep man
2.
3.
	

Expected Results:  a few files at least :-)
Comment 1 Helge Deller 2001-05-25 16:53:05 UTC 
Waiting for maintainer's response (Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet.ac.ru>)
Comment 2 Pekka Savola 2001-06-20 20:21:44 UTC 
I've talked with Alexey on this; he has created lots of docs in *.ps form (%doc), and man pages aren't forthcoming.

I started writing man page about ip(8), but only got about 1/3 way when I realized the syntax was so complex, 
it wouldn't be of much use; better just to create a short page with pointers to 'ip help' commands and the existing
documentation.
Comment 3 Pekka Savola 2001-06-20 20:23:30 UTC 
(btw, if you want what I did, just email me; I did global options, ip link, ip address and started on ip route)
Comment 4 Pekka Savola 2001-07-06 20:54:49 UTC 
As mentioned in #30678, I'm attaching the beginnings of the page I was writing in 
case someone is interested.
Comment 5 Pekka Savola 2001-07-06 20:56:04 UTC 
Created attachment 22909 [details]
beginnings of ip(8) man page.  Sigh.
Comment 6 Mike McLean 2002-03-04 21:48:27 UTC 
Still no man page....

Considering how important this utility is, it would seem to be worth someones
time write a man page.  For that matter, how hard would it be to build a man
page from the tex source?
Comment 7 Michele Baldessari 2002-03-05 11:14:03 UTC 
FYI: Over at lartc.org they made some manpages for the tc utils :

http://www.lartc.org/manpages/
Comment 8 Michael K. Johnson 2002-03-05 16:37:45 UTC 
Even a man page that only said "See the reference documents:
ip reference: /usr/share/doc/iproute-2.2.4/ip-cref.ps"
etc. would be helpful.
Comment 9 Phil Knirsch 2002-03-15 00:24:03 UTC 
Updated to latest stable release and added a very simple manpage.

Available via rawhide real soon now(tm).

Read ya, Phil