On Wed, 6 May 2020 00:00:48 +0000 (UTC) Chris Olson via CentOS centos@centos.org wrote:
We located an application recommended by one of customers for sharing certain data. It was available for installation using a few different methods. Using yum was also recommended for the installation. The install instructions began with what appeared to be a fairly typical command as indicated below (with the URL slightly altered).
sudo rpm --import https://rpm.xxxxx.com/rpmrepo.key
To our junior employee assigned to perform the install on a test system, it seemed like a good idea to do some checking on the rpm option --import indicated in those instructions. They did not find the --import in any of the 14 pages of the CentOS 7 man page for rpm.
Well I wouldn't called obvious, but the rpm man page has a "see also" for rpmkeys(8) and this man page documents the rpm key related options.
I don't know how it came to be that rpm --import just quietly does rpmkeys --import without documenting it though...
/Peter