[Bug 299883] Re: There should be an update-grub2 manpage

[Shirish Agarwal]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: grub2
  
- This is the update-grub manpage as it shows after grub2 install.
+ There is an update-grub2 binary
+ 
+ /usr/sbin/update-grub2
+ 
+ The manpage though is named update-grub
  
  $ man update-grub
  
- UPDATE-GRUB(8)          System Administration Utilities         UPDATE-
- GRUB(8)
+ UPDATE-GRUB(8)                                System Administration
+ Utilities                               UPDATE-GRUB(8)
  
  NAME
         update-grub - manual page for update-grub (GNU GRUB )
  
  SYNOPSIS
         update-grub [OPTION]
  
  DESCRIPTION
         Generate /boot/grub/grub.cfg
  
         -h, --help
                print this message and exit
  
         -v, --version
                print the version information and exit
  
         -y     ignored for compatibility
  
  REPORTING BUGS
         Report bugs to <bug-grub at gnu.org>.
  
- FSF                              November 2008                  UPDATE-
- GRUB(8)
+ FSF                                                    November 2008
+ UPDATE-GRUB(8)
  
- It is part of grub-pc package and it shows up as
- 
- /usr/share/man/man8/update-grub.8.gz
- 
- Also doing update-grub doesn't give much information about the options.
- 
- ~$ update-grub --help
- Usage: /usr/sbin/update-grub [OPTION]
- Generate /boot/grub/grub.cfg
- 
-   -h, --help              print this message and exit
-   -v, --version           print the version information and exit
-   -y                      ignored for compatibility
- 
- 
- Now if one looks at the manpage at Debian then get some good information 
- 
- http://wiki.debian.org/Grub/update-grub.manpage
- 
- * now the "update-grub" page is more about the "/etc/default/grub"
- variables rather than the update-grub script. That's a bit confusing.
- 
- There should ideally be an update-grub2 manpage which has the manpage as
- given by debian and a manpage of grub1.
+ Ideally, it should be named update-grub2
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  Package: grub2 1.96+20080724-12ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=en_IN
  SourcePackage: grub2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: grub2
  
  There is an update-grub2 binary
  
  /usr/sbin/update-grub2
+ 
+ Also looked at it in detail
+ 
+ $ ll /usr/sbin/update-grub2
+ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30 2008-11-17 16:55 /usr/sbin/update-grub2
  
  The manpage though is named update-grub
  
  $ man update-grub
  
  UPDATE-GRUB(8)                                System Administration
  Utilities                               UPDATE-GRUB(8)
  
  NAME
         update-grub - manual page for update-grub (GNU GRUB )
  
  SYNOPSIS
         update-grub [OPTION]
  
  DESCRIPTION
         Generate /boot/grub/grub.cfg
  
         -h, --help
                print this message and exit
  
         -v, --version
                print the version information and exit
  
         -y     ignored for compatibility
  
  REPORTING BUGS
         Report bugs to <bug-grub at gnu.org>.
  
  FSF                                                    November 2008
  UPDATE-GRUB(8)
  
- Ideally, it should be named update-grub2
+ Ideally, it should be named update-grub2 otherwise its confusing.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  Package: grub2 1.96+20080724-12ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=en_IN
  SourcePackage: grub2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

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