Fedora 17 Update: man-db-2.6.0.2-5.fc17
updates at fedoraproject.org
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Wed May 2 04:38:22 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-6672
2012-04-26 19:20:03
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Name : man-db
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 2.6.0.2
Release : 5.fc17
URL : http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/
Summary : Tools for searching and reading man pages
Description :
The man-db package includes five tools for browsing man-pages:
man, whatis, apropos, manpath and lexgrog. man preformats and displays
manual pages. whatis searches the manual page names. apropos searches the
manual page names and descriptions. manpath determines search path
for manual pages. lexgrog directly reads header information in
manual pages.
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Update Information:
This update removes hard dependency on cron, adds support for the wildcards in MANPATH and config file and fixes erroneous ".so" link resolution.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #677669 - Manpath Wildcard Regression
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677669
[ 2 ] Bug #693458 - Regression: .so bar.1 no longer works
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693458
[ 3 ] Bug #806086 - Current hard-dependency on cron* makes cron un-installable by default
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806086
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update man-db' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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