What use are these (rpm) entries in 'man'?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Thu Nov 1 15:45:58 UTC 2007
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
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