Fedora 18 Update: man-db-2.6.3-2.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-17683
2012-11-06 18:41:44
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Name        : man-db
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 2.6.3
Release     : 2.fc18
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 formats 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 brings new (2.6.3) version of man-db, cleaned .spec file and fixes one SIGABRT crash. Also man command is using less as the default pager again.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #855632 - [abrt] man-db-2.6.0.2-8.fc17: check_for_stray: Process /usr/bin/mandb was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=855632
  [ 2 ] Bug #870680 - Less is no longer the default pager given no envvars
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870680
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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/.

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