-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-8443 2011-06-21 16:10:40 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : man-db Product : Fedora 14 Version : 2.5.7 Release : 8.fc14 URL : http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/ Summary : Database cached manual pager suite 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
This update fixes problem with .so links - man accepts link pages like: .so systemd.1 man-db in f14 does not accept them. The patch add this possibility to man-db too.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Fri Jun 17 2011 Ivana Hutarova Varekova varekova@redhat.com - 2.5.7-8 - Resolves: #693458 .so bar.1 no longer works * Tue Jan 4 2011 Ivana Hutarova Varekova varekova@redhat.com - 2.5.7-7 - Resolves: #658368 fix "man full comman path" problem upstream patch (revision/1276) - Resolves: #654394 - assertion failure on 'man -l' with an uncompressed page upstream patch (revision/1199) * Wed Nov 24 2010 Ivana Hutarova Varekova varekova@redhat.com - 2.5.7-6 - Resolves: #655385 - use old format of nroff output * Wed Sep 29 2010 jkeating - 2.5.7-5.1 - Rebuilt for gcc bug 634757 * Fri Sep 3 2010 Ivana Hutarova Varekova varekova@redhat.com - 2.5.7-5 - fix the dependencies * Mon Aug 16 2010 Ivana Hutarova Varekova varekova@redhat.com - 2.5.7-4 - provides man tag * Mon Aug 9 2010 Ivana Hutarova Varekova varekova@redhat.com - 2.5.7-3 - resolves: #621688 remove problematic man-pages (now in man-pages-de package) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #693458 - Regression: .so bar.1 no longer works https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693458 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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