[Bug 480571] [NEW] Man page for grub-install missing.

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Mittwoch, den 11.11.2009, 09:17 +0000 schrieb Matt Purvis:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> Binary package hint: grub2
> 
> The man page grub-install(8) is provided by /usr/share/man/man8/grub-
> set-default.8.gz, i.e.:
> 
> $ man -aw grub-install
> /usr/share/man/man8/grub-set-default.8.gz
> 
> The man header, footer and NAME section mention grub-install but the
> rest of the man page documents grub-set-default, i.e.:
> 

I don't know why but man-db seems to stroke a bit with our man pages.
I think in Debian we have (or had) a report that running man grub-foo
shows the man page of grub-bar.
mandb -c fixes this.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/amd64/grub-pc/filelist
The package itself doestn't contain any grub-install man page.
Unfortunately this is still true with my last experimental upload to
Debian.
I look into this.

But anyway the man pages are just autocreated with help2man and so are
just the --help output.

> Not sure if this will help but there appears to be at least a partial
> man page for grub-install on the GNU GRUB Wiki:
> 
> http://grub.enbug.org/FranklinPiat/grub-install.manpage

There are no plans to integrate and continue Franklin's work on the man
pages.
upstream prefers to have them autogenerated via help2man and the real
docs in the info pages.


-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer

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