On 5/5/20 6:00 PM, Chris Olson via CentOS 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. > > Some Google searches indicated that the --import option > does exist. The repo setup and application installation > all went well and took only about three minutes. The app > is also working as intended. > > Is there some good reason for --import being left out of > the manual page? That's a really interesting question, but probably better directed at rpm directly: http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list or https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues -- Orion Poplawski Manager of NWRA Technical Systems 720-772-5637 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion at nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 https://www.nwra.com/