Fedora IoT missing some manpages?

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1

Hi folks,

on my Raspi I’m using Fedora-IoT-raw-44-20260427.0.aarch64.raw.xz which uses rpm-ostree.
In the onfig file /etc/rpm-ostreed.conf it says:

cat /etc/rpm-ostreed.conf

...
For option meanings, see rpm-ostreed.conf(5).
...

But this man pages doesn’t seem to exist:

man rpm-ostreed.conf
No manual entry for rpm-ostreed.conf
man 5 rpm-ostreed.conf
No manual entry for rpm-ostreed.conf in section 5

So I tried to install the documentation, but didn’t find anything.
The same goes for rpm-ostreed, no manpage?

Is there a package missing or what would I have to install to get the documentation?

Best regards
Ben

2

Quite often you can find man pages on the internet by searching Google for “man rpm-ostreed.conf”.

3

Yes, I finally found the manpage here
https://www.mankier.com/5/rpm-ostreed.conf
However, I just wondered why in this distro the manpage is missing.
Or I may just have not searched right.

4

This is by design.

Fedora IoT has lineage with the old Fedora Atomic Host distribution and we chose not to include man pages in the OS to save on space, etc. The assumption was that users could login, create a container, install man pages, and get the docs they need.

The the primary use case for these variants was not for regular user access, but rather systems that should “just work” (including auto-updates).