Fedora 16 Update: man-db-2.6.0.2-3.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-6737
2012-04-27 05:19:38
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Name        : man-db
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 2.6.0.2
Release     : 3.fc16
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 adds support for the wildcards in MANPATH and config file and fixes erroneous ".so" link resolution.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Apr 26 2012 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe at redhat.com> - 2.6.0.2-3
- resolves: #677669
  added support for wildcards in path
- resolves: #693458
  fixed error with .so links
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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
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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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