[yum-git] 3 commits - AUTHORS docs/yum.8

James Antill james at linux.duke.edu
Sun Mar 16 03:37:59 UTC 2008


 AUTHORS    |    9 +++++++--
 docs/yum.8 |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

New commits:
commit 781b5150fad182fe88a521c6d7fe7629be908245
Author: James Antill <james at and.org>
Date:   Sat Mar 15 23:30:00 2008 -0400

     I can haz creditz? kthxbai!
    
     Oh, and: Florian, Jack, and Panu

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index e955ac9..71845e1 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -19,8 +19,13 @@ YUM AUTHORS
     Luke Macken
     James Bowes
     Tim Lauridsen
-    
-    
+    Florian Festi
+    Jack Neely
+    James Antill
+    Panu Matilainen
+    Tambet Ingo
+
+
 Original Yup people:
     Bryan Stillwell 
     Stephen Edie
commit 44d09709f3d14ea4af0b3c65bb5ef7a5e2c37930
Author: James Antill <james at and.org>
Date:   Sat Mar 15 23:24:07 2008 -0400

    Add help on help :)

diff --git a/docs/yum.8 b/docs/yum.8
index 29d7780..2cffc9a 100644
--- a/docs/yum.8
+++ b/docs/yum.8
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ gnome\-packagekit application\&.
 .br
 .I \fR * repolist [all|enabled|disabled] 
 .br
+.I \fR * help [command] 
+.br
 .PP 
 Unless the \-\-help or \-h option is given, one of the above commands
 must be present\&.
@@ -91,8 +93,8 @@ changes, for example: upgrading from somelinux 8.0 to somelinux 9.
 Implemented so you could know if your machine had any updates that needed to
 be applied without running it interactively. Returns exit value of 100 if
 there are packages available for an update. Also returns a list of the pkgs
-to be updated in list format. Returns 0 and no packages are available for
-update.
+to be updated in list format. Returns 0 if no packages are available for
+update. Returns 1 if an error occured.
 .IP
 .IP "\fBupgrade\fP"
 Is the same as the update command with the \-\-obsoletes flag set. See update 
@@ -190,6 +192,10 @@ dependencies for the given packages.
 Produces a list of configured repositories. The default is to list all
 enabled repositories.
 .IP
+.IP "\fBhelp\fP"
+Produces help, either for all commands or if given a command name then the help
+for that particular command\&.
+.IP
 .PP
 .SH "GENERAL OPTIONS"
 Most command line options can be set using the configuration file as
commit c2de521ecfc2907f7cb60dc4d0cd2063c81ea188
Author: James Antill <james at and.org>
Date:   Sat Mar 15 23:20:33 2008 -0400

    Add keywords people might search for. Give a longer summary, point to PK

diff --git a/docs/yum.8 b/docs/yum.8
index a8c5a7e..29d7780 100644
--- a/docs/yum.8
+++ b/docs/yum.8
@@ -6,7 +6,16 @@ yum \- Yellowdog Updater Modified
 \fByum\fP [options] [command] [package ...]
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 .PP 
-\fByum\fP is an interactive, automated update program which can be used for maintaining systems using rpm
+\fByum\fP is an interactive, rpm based, package manager. It can automatically
+perform system updates, including dependancy analysis and obsolete processing
+based on "repository" metadata. It can also perform installation of new
+packages, removal of old packages and perform queries on the installed and/or
+available packages among many other commands/services (see below)\&. \fByum\fP
+is similar to other high level package managers like apt\-get and smart\&.
+.PP
+While there are some graphical interfaces directly to the \fByum\fP code, more
+recent graphical interface development is happening with PackageKit and the
+gnome\-packagekit application\&.
 .PP 
 \fIcommand\fP is one of:
 .br 
@@ -387,9 +396,16 @@ configuration options.
 .PP
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .nf
+.I pkcon (1)
 .I yum.conf (5)
+.I yum-updatesd (8)
+.I package-cleanup (1)
+.I repoquery (1)
+.I yum-complete-transaction (1)
+.I yumdownloader (1)
 http://linux.duke.edu/yum/
 http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq
+yum search yum
 .fi
 
 .PP



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