Re: why does "yelp" claim to be part of the (rpm) subsection?

Matthew Miller <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 02:24:19PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > "man -k" searches the whatis database. Looks like the summary string
> > from RPM packages is included in that database.
> ok, i'm not sure what that last part means, but is this by design?
> because it's certainly just a bit confusing.

Try this:

  rpm -qa --qf '%{name}: %{summary}\n'


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