On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Chris G wrote: > When I do a "man -k <xxxx>" on my Fedora 7 system to search for > documentation about something I get quite a few responses which have > "(rpm)" as the manual section. These seem to be of little use becuase > there isn't an actual corresponding man page as far as I can see. > > For example if I say "man -k doc" (not a very sensible idea given the > amount of output it generates!) at the end of the list I see:- > > tiff2pdf (1) - convert a TIFF image to a PDF document ugetrlimit [undocumented] (2) - undocumented system calls > xml2po (1) - program to create a PO-template file from a DocBook XML file and merge it back into a (translated) XML file > xmlwf (1) - Determines if an XML document is well-formed > xorg-x11-docs (rpm) - X.Org X11 documentation > yelp (rpm) - A system documentation reader from the Gnome project > > Now "man tiff2pdf", "man xml2po" and "man xmlwf" produce some useful > (?) output but "man xorg-x11-docs" and "man yelp" just say "No > manual entry for <xxxx>". > > > So what is the point of these (rpm) entries? Do they somehow > indicate that there is some sort of documentation there, if so how > do I get at it? $ man rpm yelp rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
