Bug 672732 - "--rollback" is not documented in man page
Summary: "--rollback" is not documented in man page
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rpm
Version: 5.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Packaging Maintenance Team
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-01-26 04:57 UTC by masanari iida
Modified: 2013-03-08 12:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-03-08 12:11:46 UTC
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Description masanari iida 2011-01-26 04:57:31 UTC 
Description of problem:
"--rollback" is not documented in man page,
as well as  rpm --help output.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.4.2.3-18.el5


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  man rpm  and find out "--rollback" 
2.  Run rpm --help and find out "--rollback"
  
Actual results:
No information about "--rollback" 

Expected results:
Man page should include how to use "--rollback"
i.e.  Edit /etc/yum.conf or /etc/rpm/macros
How to specify the option. '3:20 pm', '3 hours ago' and 'may 25'

Additional info:
Comment 2 Florian Festi 2013-03-08 12:11:46 UTC 
RHEL5 is in development stage 2 now. This rules out man page improvements as an update. --rollback is broken by design anyway and noone should really use it. It got removed from the code base in a later version or rpm for exactly this reason.
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