Fedora 19 Update: man-db-2.6.3-8.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-10971
2014-09-19 09:02:16
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Name        : man-db
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 2.6.3
Release     : 8.fc19
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:

Don't store canonicalised versions of manpath elements
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Sep 18 2014 jchaloup <jchaloup at redhat.com> - 2.6.3-8
- resolves: #1043401
  Don't store canonicalised versions of manpath elements
* Tue Sep 24 2013 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe at redhat.com> - 2.6.3-7
- resolves: #986085
  fixed crash when running man with -M option
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1043401 - SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/mandb from 'write' accesses on the file index.db.
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043401
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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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