Fedora 17 Update: man-db-2.6.0.2-8.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-11325
2012-08-01 05:51:29
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Name        : man-db
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 2.6.0.2
Release     : 8.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:

With this update, the man command ignores the cached man pages that don't exist any more.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jul 31 2012 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe at redhat.com> - 2.6.0.2-8
- resolves: #841431
  ignore cached man pages if they don't exist anymore
* Thu Jul 12 2012 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe at redhat.com> - 2.6.0.2-7
- resolves: #657409
  fixed warning when invoking col by the mandb program in cron
- resolves: #824825
  apropos returns correct exit code for invalid man page
- resolves: #829553
  clear the old man cache on install or update
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #841431 - man: can't resolve /usr/share/man/man8//usr/share/man/man8/prelink.8.gz: No such file or directory
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841431
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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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