Bug 138950 - [Documentation] rpm -qi missing from help
Summary: [Documentation] rpm -qi missing from help
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-12 01:53 UTC by Benny Sun
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-11-12 13:20:05 UTC
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Description Benny Sun 2004-11-12 01:53:41 UTC
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Description of problem:
I am a new user to Fedora, but I do remember reading before about the
package info option -qi somewhere. But I checked `rpm --help` for the
proper command and I got:


=======================================================
Query options (with -q or --query):
  -c, --configfiles                list all configuration files
  -d, --docfiles                   list all documentation files
  --dump                           dump basic file information
  -l, --list                       list files in package
  --queryformat=QUERYFORMAT        use the following query format
  -s, --state                      display the states of the listed files
  -a, --all                        query/verify all packages
  -f, --file                       query/verify package(s) owning file
  -g, --group                      query/verify package(s) in group
  -p, --package                    query/verify a package file
  --specfile                       query a spec file
  --whatrequires                   query/verify the package(s) which
require a
                                   dependency
  --whatprovides                   query/verify the package(s) which
provide a
                                   dependency
=======================================================

Nothing about the -i option exists here. A site tells me that `rpm
-qi` displays "package information, including name, version, and
description."

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.3.2-21

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm --help
2.
3.
    

Actual Results:  -i option and its purpose missing from Query Options
section of rpm help

Expected Results:  Should be a blurb about being able to use the -i
option in conjunction with -q.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2004-11-12 13:20:05 UTC
The --info long option is in rpmquery --help
  --info          list descriptive information from package(s)

The short -i option cannot be documented in --help because it
has at least 3 different interpretations, depending on context.


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