On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 13:19 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 12:58 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> I've been trying to figure out where apropos/whatis is finding this.
>
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> [bdwheele@wombat etc]$ whatis fuse
> Fuse (3pm) - write filesystems in Perl using FUSE
> fuse (rpm) - File System in Userspace (FUSE) utilities
> fuse-devel (rpm) - File System in Userspace (FUSE) devel files
> fuse-libs (rpm) - File System in Userspace (FUSE) libraries
> fuse-smb (rpm) - FUSE-Filesystem to fast and easy access
> remote resources via SMB
> [bdwheele@wombat etc]$ man fuse
> No manual entry for fuse
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>
> Where are these 'rpm' section man pages coming from in the makewhatis
> index? It'd be nice if there was some actual output (like installation
> time, version, etc) when one did a man on an RPM page...
This is a (somewhat silly) patch in our makewhatis that adds the names
of all installed rpms to the database...
Its actually helpful -- I've used it to discover packages I didn't know
about, but it is a bit confusing, since the man page comes up empty.
Brian