Re: why does "yelp" claim to be part of the (rpm) subsection?
Matthew Miller <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 02:31:21PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > Try this:
> > rpm -qa --qf '%{name}: %{summary}\n'
> i'm still not sure what i'm supposed to be seeing here, or what that
> has to do with the fact that the "yelp" package advertises itself as
> being in the "rpm" subsection. certainly, yelp doesn't say anything
> about rpm in its summary string:
> $ rpm -qa --qf '%{name}: %{summary}\n' | grep yelp
> yelp: A system documentation reader from the Gnome project
And note that that's exactly what you're getting from 'man -k'.
The "rpm" section of the whatis database is generated from these summaries
from rpm. "man -k" is showing you matches from the whatis database, and
telling you its data source.
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