Just for the sake of the folks searching for this in google:
gholms https://irccloud.com/#!/irc.freenode.net:6667/gholms> l1x: Yes. It will be fixed in the next F16 image. [00:45:41] <l1x https://irccloud.com/#!/irc.freenode.net:6667/l1x> gholms: really? thanks. do you know what is the exact issue? is there a workaround? [00:46:54] <gholms https://irccloud.com/#!/irc.freenode.net:6667/gholms> The kickstart that generated the image specified --nodocs and that setting persisted in the images themselves. [00:48:18] <gholms https://irccloud.com/#!/irc.freenode.net:6667/gholms> You can work around it by deleting the macro that prevents docs from getting installed (I think it's something in /etc/rpm) and then running ``yum reinstall'' on the packages with man pages you care about.
Thanks to gholms.
I am going to check this later on when I am coming back from holiday.
I.
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:04 PM, István leccine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi guys,
This is my second email about the topic (I have asked the same question when Fedora 15 was released). Is there any plan to ship a working man db at any stage for Fedora?
[root@ip- ~]# rpm -qa | grep man man-pages-3.32-14.fc16.noarch man-db-2.6.0.2-2.fc16.x86_64
[root@ip- ~]# mandb Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man... Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man5'. Wait...mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.5.gz is a dangling symlink Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man1'. Wait...mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.1.gz is a dangling symlink mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.1.gz is a dangling symlink Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man8'. Wait...mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man8/rmail.8.gz is a dangling symlink mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz is a dangling symlink Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man1x'. Wait...done. Checking for stray cats under /usr/share/man... Checking for stray cats under /var/cache/man... Processing manual pages under /usr/local/share/man... Updating index cache for path `/usr/local/share/man/man1x'. Wait...done. Checking for stray cats under /usr/local/share/man... Checking for stray cats under /var/cache/man/local... 41 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages. 0 manual pages were added. 0 stray cats were added. 0 old database entries were purged.
[root@ip- ~]# man man No manual entry for man
[root@ip- ~]# uname -a Linux ip-10-227-126-96 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Sep 16 12:26:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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