Re: why does "yelp" claim to be part of the (rpm) subsection?
"Jeff Johnson" <[email protected]>
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On 11/1/07, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:22:02PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > following up on a thread we've got going on the fedora list, is > > > there a reason that "man -k yelp" appears to claim that it's in the > > > "rpm" section of documentation? > > > $ man -k yelp > > > yelp (rpm) - A system documentation reader from the > Gnome project > > > $ > > > and even if the yelp package is installed, there's no man page for > > > it: > > > > "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. I dimly remember some patch from ~RHEL3 that adds summary info to the whatis database. Check the makewhatis script, see if rpm -q is called. So yes, by design. 73 de Jeff _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list