certmonger

#203 man page of getcert seems outdated
Closed: fixed by rcritten. Opened by hennsch.

Closed: fixed
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"getcert --help" and "man getcert" already differ heavily in the subcommands, man lists some that are not even valid, like "refresh-cas" (which is found in several ".1.in" files)

So i guess the man-pages are outdated in general.

What version of certmonger?

A large man page refresh was done in 0.79.10

0.79.13 and master

grep -e "refresh.*cas" src/*

OK, thanks. Your original description suggests there are vast differences between the man page and the cli help output that I'm not seeing. What else am I missing?

 
request         request a new certificate from a CA
start-tracking  begin monitoring an already-issued certificate
stop-tracking   stop monitoring a certificate
resubmit        resubmit an in-progress enrollment request, or start a new one
rekey           generate a new private key and replace a certificate
refresh         check on the status of an in-progress enrollment request
list            list certificates being monitored and requested
status          check the status of a certificate being monitored or requested
add-ca          add a CA configuration
add-scep-ca     add an SCEP CA configuration
list-cas        list known CA configurations
modify-ca       modify a CA configuration
refresh-ca      refresh cache of all information obtained from a CA
remove-ca       remove a CA configuration

        getcert request [options]
        getcert resubmit [options]
        getcert start-tracking [options]
        getcert status [options]
        getcert stop-tracking [options]
        getcert list [options]
        getcert list-cas [options]
        getcert refresh-cas [options]

14 vs 8 lines, i did not look too deep. How "vast" that feels might be a personal thing, since i was interested in "refresh-cas" it felt enormous to me ;)

Metadata Update from @rcritten:
- Issue assigned to rcritten

Thanks. I got the SEE ALSO right but missed them in the top-level display. I also re-ordered them to match the cli output.

PR https://pagure.io/certmonger/pull-request/206

Merged, thanks for the report.

Metadata Update from @rcritten:
- Issue close_status updated to: fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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