Bug 14831

Summary:	The "bug" command should show help (and not garbage) when executed without parameters
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Morgan Leijström <fri>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	eeeemail, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	the "garbage" it shows

Description Morgan Leijström 2014-12-18 01:48:51 CET

Currently it spits out a few lines complaining aboput "empty list" and other things looking like a bug itself.

When used without parameter, or wrong parameter it should show same help as shown when issuing

bug --help


Besides, that help could be improved by saying devices can be found by issuing
 fdisk -l  or  fdisk -l | more

It could also help if it mentions which file systems it can use

Reproducible: 

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Comment 1 Morgan Leijström 2014-12-18 04:30:43 CET

actually, the wiki say the command should not need a parameter
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Triage_guide#Installer-related_bugs

But I think it must be possible to control where it puts the file.

If it could list choices of locations it would be great :)

Comment 2 Morgan Leijström 2014-12-18 12:45:45 CET

Created attachment 5725 [details]
the "garbage" it shows

claire robinson 2015-02-09 15:27:12 CET

CC: (none) => eeeemail
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Severity: enhancement => normal

Comment 3 claire robinson 2015-02-09 15:31:53 CET

It never used to require any parameters but fails like this since mga4. 

Pretty sure there is another bug about it somewhere too but searching for 'bug' on bugzilla is unhelpful :D

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2015-02-09 16:07:00 CET

(In reply to claire robinson from comment #3)
> It never used to require any parameters but fails like this since mga4. 
> 
> Pretty sure there is another bug about it somewhere too but searching for
> 'bug' on bugzilla is unhelpful :D

yeah, bug 12263 (tbh, I thought there was at least one more, but I can't find that one)

Can this one be closed as duplicate, or do you want to keep this one for improving the help?

CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2015-02-09 16:19:15 CET

s/the help/bug --help/

Comment 6 Thierry Vignaud 2015-02-18 11:00:36 CET

No parameter is needed.
If no removable device is provided and more than one is available, it displays a menu (modulo bug #14435 I fixed yesterday)

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX