On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 02:49:56PM +0000, 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. [snip] > 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? The "apropos" command (or "man -k") just does a quick search of the "whatis" database, which isn't exactly the same as searching man pages. The result is more or less what you would get from grepping the /var/cache/man/whatis file directly. As it turns out, we've been adding package names and summaries to the whatis database for a while now (#175595). Cheers, Nalin
