Bug 81361 - rpm need option to install just documentation
Summary: rpm need option to install just documentation
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 7.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Paul Nasrat
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-08 15:11 UTC by Nils Petter Vaskinn
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-09-29 18:56:25 UTC
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Description Nils Petter Vaskinn 2003-01-08 15:11:27 UTC
Description of problem:

Short:

rpm -i --justdocs foo.rpm


Long:

It could be potentially useful to be able to install just the documantation 
from an rpm package. e.g. if program foo is installed on a server I would 
be able to do "man foo" on another machine without actually installing the 
program.

This would eliminate the need for either installing a program that won't be 
used (think security, less program is better), copying man/html/whatever 
files out of the .rpm file or connecting (potentially slow) to the server 
where the files are

The option --justdocs would work as an exact opposite of --excludedoc

since rpm already knows how to exclude documentation it should be 
relatively easy to let it exclude everuthing except documentation


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Comment 1 Paul Nasrat 2005-09-29 18:56:25 UTC
This feature is not currently planned for RPM.  Should you wish this for
consideration raising with a patch on rpm-devel-list is the preferred route.

https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/rpm-devel


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