Bug 1321709

Summary:	rpm manpage fails to mention multiple, apparently existing, options
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Michal Jaegermann <michal.jnn>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2016-03-29 01:47:04 UTC

Description of problem:

In an output of 'rpm --help' there are options which do not show up in 'man rpm' at all and an output of '--help' is understandably quite terse. This is what looks like the current list:
 --nocontexts
--macros
--noplugins
--xml
--filetriggers
--dupes
--fileclass
--filecolor
--fscontext
--fileprovide
--filerequire
--filecaps

Also a '--usage' fits above but that can be guessed, I think. :-)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.13.0-0.rc1.27.fc25 (and others)

Comment 1 Florian Festi 2016-04-12 12:04:37 UTC

Added these (and a list of others) to the man pages upstream. Note that --fscontext got removed from the code base and --nocontexts is now in the "Obsolete options" section of rpm-misc.

Please see
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/blob/master/doc/rpm.8
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/blob/master/doc/rpm-misc.8
for the current state of the man pages and feel free to reopen this bug if some options are still unclear.