Re: man page update
James Antill <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.yum |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Eric Shubert <[email protected]> writes: > Greetings. I'm new to this list, so please be gentle. > > I was recently shown that yum can find and select a package for > installation based on a feature or capability, such as: > # yum install "perl(Archive::Tar)" > This will determine which package contains the named perl module, and > install it if it's not already installed. Very cool. > > When I read the man page (yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1), I see nothing > that even hints at this capability, unless I'm misreading it. It says > that a package name Should I be looking elsewhere for yum > documentation, or will the man page be updated/clarified at some point? I committed a few changes which might help, feel free to read it over and give any suggestions: Full man page: http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/yum.8;hb=fccb827e4e63f3e7d30555af1bfa4399504e328c Diff: http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=commitdiff;h=fccb827e4e63f3e7d30555af1bfa4399504e328c -- James Antill -- [email protected]