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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > -- > the sun shines for all > > > > -- the sun shines for all
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