MySQL Bugs: #40162: mysql's help command referes to the 5.1 online documentation

Bug #40162	mysql's help command referes to the 5.1 online documentation
Submitted:	20 Oct 2008 8:27	Modified:	28 Oct 2008 17:12
Reporter:	Olav Sandstå	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Packaging	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	6.0.7	OS:	Any
Assigned to:	Jonathan Perkin	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
When running the following command in the mysql clients:

  mysql> help select

at the end of the output there is the following reference to the online documentation:

  URL: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/select.html

This should probably refer to the 6.0 version of the online documentation.

How to repeat:
1. Start the mysql client.
2. Run the following command:

     help select

Suggested fix:
The reference to the online documentation should refer to the 6.0 online documentation.

Thank you for the report.

Verified as described: there is no help tables for 6.0 at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/ So set as documentation problem.

I'll take care of making sure the help file for 6.0 gets published at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index.html but the main problem here is a packaging issue: The 5.1 help file was packaged with the 6.0.7 release. The same is true for the man pages.

The help file for 6.0 is available at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index.html now.

Recategorizing as packaging problem, assigning to jperkin.

We were pulling in the 5.1 help and manual pages for anything >5.1, a relic from when there were no 6.0-specific files available.

I've fixed our internal scripts and the next 6.0 release will package the appropriate documentation.