Did a yum update today on my Fedora 19 machine and was happy to see that proton v0.6 is now available on the system.
================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Updating: qpid-proton-c x86_64 0.6-1.fc19 fedora19-x86_64-updates 116 k ... Transaction Summary ================================================================================ ... Cool, let's check it out! $ rpm -qi qpid-proton-c-0.6-1.fc19.x86_64 Name : qpid-proton-c Version : 0.6 Release : 1.fc19 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Wed 29 Jan 2014 09:11:04 AM EST Group : Unspecified Size : 396552 License : ASL 2.0 Signature : RSA/SHA256, Fri 17 Jan 2014 10:55:59 AM EST, Key ID 07477e65fb4b18e6 Source RPM : qpid-proton-0.6-1.fc19.src.rpm Build Date : Thu 16 Jan 2014 01:54:34 PM EST Build Host : buildvm-18.phx2.fedoraproject.org Relocations : (not relocatable) Packager : Fedora Project Vendor : Fedora Project URL : http://qpid.apache.org/proton/ Summary : C libraries for Qpid Proton Description : C libraries for Qpid Proton. Version 0.6, sweet! OK, now what did it install? $ rpm -ql qpid-proton-c-0.6-1.fc19.x86_64 /usr/bin/proton /usr/bin/proton-dump /usr/lib64/libqpid-proton.so.2 /usr/lib64/libqpid-proton.so.2.0.0 /usr/share/man/man1/proton.1.gz /usr/share/proton-0.6 /usr/share/proton-0.6/LICENSE /usr/share/proton-0.6/README /usr/share/proton-0.6/TODO Cool, so what does that proton tool do, let's find out? $ /usr/bin/proton --help /usr/bin/proton: invalid option -- '-' Usage: /usr/bin/proton -h Aborted (core dumped) Abort with a core dump! That's not the expected behaviour, is it? -h works as does the man 1 page, but I think it's suprising that --help would abort. So what does proton-dump do? Hard to say since there is no help screen displayed when using either -h or --help and there is no man page and the README that was installed contains just build and test instructions. It's not a big deal, but just thought someone should know. -- Davin Shearer
