On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 02:24:19PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > "man -k" searches the whatis database. Looks like the summary string > > from RPM packages is included in that database. > ok, i'm not sure what that last part means, but is this by design? > because it's certainly just a bit confusing. Try this: rpm -qa --qf '%{name}: %{summary}\n' -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list