Together http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ and Maximum (transfer them both to any ws with 'wget -cNEkpm -np -nH -nv $url') represent an enormous fund of rpm knowledge for erstwhile ignorami seeking rpm info, such as myself. The trouble was, that finding relevant info in both of them (at the same time) was almost impossible. Almost nothing is properly cross- referenced/hyperlinked; the best cross-referenced doco I know of is the Postfix >= 2.2 stuff, but even that's not easy to search in; read on. I have a RHAS4 semi-production/test server running on an IBM T23 ThinkPad notebook (1GB RAM, 80GB disk, something I develop on at home and drag around with me to clients). It runs apache (httpd) 2.0.52-19 and swish-e-2.4 (the last is not a RH rpm, it's a proprietary rpm, see http://Swish-e.org). By bunging the Fedora and Maximum htmls into a common /var/www directory, using httpd and indexing the htmls in that directory with the swish-e cgi in /var/www/cgi-bin, I can now search both Fedora and Maximum (at the same time) on "words" and phrases. It works a bit like Google. To search for words beginning with "%" or "-", use the following in swish.conf: WordCharacters -%0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz BeginCharacters -%0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz It saves me a whole bunch of searching for elusive contexts in the original doco and as I say, hope that this helps someone ... --Tonni -- Tony Earnshaw http://www.billy.demon.nl tonye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
