[Yum] RPM/YUM book and suggestions for the yum(8) man page

[Brian Long]

On 7/10/11 5:13 PM, Andrew Ford wrote:
> On 10/07/11 20:24, Andrew Ford wrote:
>> As I posted back in April, I am writing a book for O'Reilly on RPM and
>> YUM.  The timescales have slipped somewhat due to the demands of the
>> day job, but it is starting to come together.  Apologies to those who
>> volunteered to review the book - I will have something to look at soon
>> now.
>>
>> While trying to get my head around everything to do with yum I
>> realized that the man page is rather indigestible.  It lists about 30
>> different commands in no discernible order.  One could organize the
>> commands into three categories: (1) reporting (on packages, groups,
>> repos and dependencies), (2) package installation, upgrade and
>> removal, and (3) housekeeping and miscellaneous.  I would be happy to
>> modify the man page if people would like to get an idea of how it
>> might be restructured. 
> 
> I have put a formatted PDF of my modified version of the man page up at
> 
>     https://portal.ford-mason.co.uk/yum.8-new.pdf
> 
> All I have done is added sections to group the commands and moved text
> around.
> 
> Comments would be welcome.

As an end user of yum, I welcome the organization.  This seems to
closely mimic the rpm man page layout so I think it makes a lot of sense.

/Brian/
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