On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 20:49 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 27 November 2008 19:51:57 Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > The options work, but they must be specified correctly. For example,
> > the --provides and --whatprovides options are "select-options" which
> > should be specified after the -q or --query option. The man page does
> > show this IMO.
> >
> > SYNOPSIS
> > QUERYING AND VERIFYING PACKAGES:
> > rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options]
> > [...]
> > select-options
> > [PACKAGE_NAME] [-a,--all] [-f,--file FILE]
> > [-g,--group GROUP] {-p,--package PACKAGE_FILE]
> > [--fileid MD5] [--hdrid SHA1] [--pkgid MD5] [--tid TID]
> > [--querybynumber HDRNUM] [--triggeredby PACKAGE_NAME]
> > [--whatprovides CAPABILITY] [--whatrequires CAPABILITY]
>
> Hold on - I think the missing key is there. Are you saying that parameters
> with { } are obligatory? No-one has ever mentioned that before in anything
> I've read. That would explain a lot.
IIRC this is pretty standard syntax for man pages.
poc
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