Bug 816530 - No manpages for grub2
Summary: No manpages for grub2
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grub2
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-04-26 10:39 UTC by Florian Ermisch
Modified: 2012-04-26 10:53 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-04-26 10:53:06 UTC
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Description Florian Ermisch 2012-04-26 10:39:04 UTC
Description of problem:
-bash-4.2$ grub2-
grub2-bin2h            grub2-mkdevicemap      grub2-mkrescue
grub2-editenv          grub2-mkfont           grub2-probe
grub2-fstest           grub2-mkimage          grub2-reboot
grub2-install          grub2-mklayout         grub2-script-check
grub2-kbdcomp          grub2-mknetdir         grub2-set-default
grub2-menulst2cfg      grub2-mkpasswd-pbkdf2  grub2-setup
grub2-mkconfig         grub2-mkrelpath  

but

-bash-4.2$ apropos grub
grubby (8)           - command line tool for configuring grub, lilo...
-bash-4.2$ apropos grub2
-bash-4.2$ 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
-bash-4.2$ yum info grub2
Loaded plugins: security
Installed Packages
Name        : grub2
Arch        : x86_64
Epoch       : 1
Version     : 1.99
Release     : 13.fc16.2
Size        : 5.0 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : updates
[...]

How reproducible:
Every Fedora 16 installation?

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 16
2. man grub2 || apropos grub2 
  
Actual results:
No manpages.

Expected results:
At least basic manpages poiting to the texinfo I just found (`info grub2`).

Additional info:
Grub2 manpages do exist: Ubuntu includes them (with s/grub2-/grub-/ on the names) and /usr/share/doc/grub2-1.99/README.Fedora points to http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/.

Comment 1 Mads Kiilerich 2012-04-26 10:53:06 UTC
Fedora do not have any policy requiring man pages for all tools.

Grub upstream is dogmatic GNU project and use info - not man pages.

The best solution would be if other distributions upstreamed their man pages and got them maintained - then they would be included in Fedora.


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