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

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

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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