yum man page fixes (was Re: up2date)

[camille zavala]

whoops, i spent the afternoon hacking the man page, sent it to the yum 
mailing list, and then saw your reply (below).  oh well, i just joined the 
list at dulug so we'll all get to where we want to go eventually.

= cd


>From: seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>
>Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases 
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>Subject: Re: yum man page fixes (was Re: up2date)
>Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:31:17 -0400
>
>On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 15:27 -0700, camille zavala wrote:
> > >Pretty sure Seth takes patches... to both code and documentation.
> >
> > I downloaded the SRPM thinking that I'd hack the sources, but I don't 
>know
> > Python so I'm useless there.
> >
> > Never mind, I can help with the documentation since I know troff.  I'm
> > posting here so that if someone besides Seth knows the answer, you can
> > answer and save Seth some time.
> >
> > What are all those zero-length characters doing in docs/yum.8 before the
> > periods?  Usually \& appears only when the first character on the line 
>is a
> > dot.
> >
>
>
>They were generated with a program I used to make the man pages many
>moons ago. Something called gtkman, I think. I don't think it is
>maintained anymore.
>
>
> > In the Synopsis command block, can I remove the deprecated "upgrade"
> > command?  If it's truly deprecated we should remove its documentation, 
>or at
> > least move it down to the bottom of the list.  We also really should 
>change
> > that "*deprecated*" and its comment to be in italics.
>
>You should join the yum-devel mailing list and ask these questions
>there. There are two folks working on the docs there: Menno Smits and
>Gijs Hollestelle who can you tell you what they've changed most
>recently.
>
>-sv
>
>
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