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/ -- Brian Long | | Corporate Security Programs Org . | | | . | | | . ' ' C I S C O _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
