Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 11:46 +0100, Mark Knoop wrote: >> Aaron Konstam wrote: >> > It was recently revealed, at least to me, that the reason : >> > man cdrecord does no work is that cdrecord is a softlink to wodim. >> > >> > Now my local ubantu person point out in ubantu running man cdrecord >> > returns the man page of modim. This he attributes to ubantu being more >> > carefull about details, >> > >> > First is this true about ubantu and is it worthwhile to file a bugzilla >> > RFE on man to get fedora to mirror this functionality. It seems on the >> > surface a simple extension to implement so I wonder why it was not done >> > in Fedora. >> >> This was discussed less than a week ago on both this list and >> subsequently on fedora-devel. >> >> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=296611 > >> BTW, it's ubuntu, not ubantu... > You are right I can'r spell. But it seems to me the bugzilla you > referenced has the wrong slant. I assume what ubuntu does is that man > detects the softlinkm and follows it. That is what should be done in > Fedora. The bug is now closed so I can't add a comment which is > frustrating. I think your interpretation is incorrect. man does not look for the binary and then follow that to the appropriate documentation. You will see that Ubuntu has a cdrecord package [1] which is "a dummy package to ease the transition to wodim, the fork of cdrecord. It provides a cdrecord symlink to wodim for compatibility purposes." Its file list is as follows: usr/bin/cdrecord usr/bin/readcd usr/share/doc/cdrecord usr/share/man/man1/cdrecord.1.gz usr/share/man/man1/readcd.1.gz I see you have now added your suggestion to the bug. [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/otherosfs/cdrecord -- Mark Knoop
