[Yum] man page update

James Antill james-yum at and.org
Wed Apr 8 04:12:22 UTC 2009


Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> writes:

> Greetings. I'm new to this list, so please be gentle.
>
> I was recently shown that yum can find and select a package for
> installation based on a feature or capability, such as:
> # yum install "perl(Archive::Tar)"
> This will determine which package contains the named perl module, and
> install it if it's not already installed. Very cool.
>
> When I read the man page (yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1), I see nothing
> that even hints at this capability, unless I'm misreading it. It says
> that a package name Should I be looking elsewhere for yum
> documentation, or will the man page be updated/clarified at some point?

 I committed a few changes which might help, feel free to read it over
and give any suggestions:

 Full man page:
http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/yum.8;hb=fccb827e4e63f3e7d30555af1bfa4399504e328c

 Diff:
http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=commitdiff;h=fccb827e4e63f3e7d30555af1bfa4399504e328c

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James Antill -- james at and.org


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