since it piqued my curiosity, i decided to ask on the rpm list about
what means:
$ man -k yelp
yelp (rpm) - A system documentation reader from the Gnome project
^^^^^??
apparently, all it means is that that information is being pulled out
of the "whatis" database, and is effectively the same as what you'd
get from grepping the file /var/cache/man whatis.
quite simply, package names and one-line summaries have been added to
the whatis database for quite some time now in response to this
enhancement request:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=175595
so that's while you'll see normal man output for, say, "strace"
thusly:
$ man strace
STRACE(1) ... blah blah ...
but you'll also see:
$ man -k strace
autrace (8) - a program similar to strace
strace (1) - trace system calls and signals
strace (rpm) - Tracks and displays system calls associated with a running process
it's also why, even when a command like "yelp" has no actual man page,
you're still likely to see that single-line, package-related "(rpm)"
entry for it.
huh. learn something every day.
rday
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