help text of rpm applet
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Fri Aug 22 08:05:58 UTC 2008
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:48:55PM +0200, Tito wrote:
>On Thursday 21 August 2008 22:12:52 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The help-text of rpm sounds like it's inaccurate.
>>
>> #define rpm_full_usage "\n\n" \
>> "Manipulate RPM packages\n" \
>> "\nOptions:" \
>> "\n -i Install package" \
>> "\n -q Query package" \
>> "\n -p Query uninstalled package" \
>> "\n -i Show information" \
>> "\n -l List contents" \
>> "\n -d List documents" \
>> "\n -c List config files" \
>>
>>
>> perhaps this should rather be something like
>>
>> #define rpm_full_usage "\n\n" \
>> "Manipulate RPM packages\n" \
>> "\nOptions:" \
>> "\n -i Install package" \
>> "\n -p Query uninstalled package" \
>> "\n -q Query package" \
>> "\n Query flags:" \
>> "\n i information" \
>> "\n l contents" \
>> "\n d documents" \
>> "\n c config files" \
>>
>> Perhaps somebody with an rpm lying around can check if that would be
>> accurate?
>
>Hi,
>here with RPM version 4.4.2.3 i get:
>
>-i Install
>Query options with -q
>-p query/verify a package file
>-l list files in package
>-d list all documentation files
>-c list all configuration files
>--dump dump basic file information
Did you write this manually or is their indentation foo'ed up?
>
>so no -q -i
very odd. What do you see if you do
$ rpm -qi acl
$ rpm -q -i acl
(assuming that you have a package named "acl" installed)?
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