Re: [CentOS] man and man-db inconsitency

2016-01-30 Thread Richard
> Date: Friday, January 29, 2016 21:32:38 -0800 > From: John R Pierce > > On 1/29/2016 9:22 PM, david wrote: >> Is there a reason for this inconsistency? The above algorithm >> works with most other packages. > > what 'algorithm' ? there's no fixed correlation between program > name and pa

Re: [CentOS] man and man-db inconsitency

2016-01-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/29/2016 9:22 PM, david wrote: Is there a reason for this inconsistency? The above algorithm works with most other packages. what 'algorithm' ? there's no fixed correlation between program name and package name. for example, the package providing 'iostat' and 'sar' is called sysstat.

[CentOS] man and man-db inconsitency

2016-01-29 Thread david
Folks I use "yum list installed" to determine if a package has been installed. In particular, I was interested in the "man" program, installed with the command "yum install man". In Centos6, if I look at the results, I see that "man" was installed. This is good. In Centos7, if I look at th