[Yum-devel] Issues in the yum.conf.5 and yum.8 man pages

[Ville Skyttä]

On Saturday 26 December 2009, James Antill wrote:

>  The problem is that the man command you gave just prints a usage
> warning on Fedora. I'm guessing you have a different version of man in
> Debian? If you could supply something we could run in Fedora to check
> the man pages, we'll happily run it.

Just for kicks, I downloaded the latest Debian man binary, and after some 
libgdbm.so.2 -> libgdbm.so.3 fake symlinks and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, was able to 
run it on Fedora 11 x86_64.  (Needed to use -t, otherwise it tried to pass -
wmac to nroff which didn't like it.)  It appears to end up invoking "groff -
mandoc -wmac" and "troff -mandoc -wmac -Tps" internally.

I got one warning from yum.8 (before the fix in git), but it's not the same 
one Thomas reported (same thing with man and groff and troff (see above)):

$ groff -mandoc -wmac yum.8 > /dev/null
yum.8:401: warning: can't find special character `epoch�\'

I got no warnings from yum.conf.5 (or any other man pages in docs/), nor 
anywhere else for unbackslash-escaped "--"s, so I suppose there may also be 
some *roff differences in addition to man in Fedora vs Debian.