help text of rpm applet
Wade Berrier
wberrier at gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 15:34:33 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 22:12 +0200, 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?
This is correct, although when using '-p' you must still use '-q'.
('-p' only denotes that the query should file from an rpm file instead
of the rpm database). So maybe this makes sense:
#define rpm_full_usage "\n\n" \
"Manipulate RPM packages\n" \
"\nOptions:" \
"\n -i Install package" \
"\n -q Query package" \
"\n Query flags:" \
"\n i information" \
"\n l contents" \
"\n d documents" \
"\n c config files" \
"\n p file query rpm file" \
Hope that helps,
Wade
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