Fedora 21 Update: man-db-2.6.7.1-16.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-12904
2015-08-07 10:00:25
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Name        : man-db
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 2.6.7.1
Release     : 16.fc21
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:

fix inaccurate description of "man -f"
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Aug  4 2015 Nikola Forró <nforro at redhat.com> - 2.6.7.1-16
- fix inaccurate description of "man -f"
  resolves #1249377
* Wed May 20 2015 jchaloup <jchaloup at redhat.com> - 2.6.7.1-15
- Test for /run/systemd only if mandb.timer is actually installed
  resolves: #1223244
* Wed May 13 2015 Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> 2.6.7.1-14
- Test for /run/systemd to detect systemd state rather than invoking
  rpm in % pre - it is not really supported by rpm.
* Fri Jan  2 2015 jchaloup <jchaloup at redhat.com> - 2.6.7.1-13
- switching back to crontabs
  resolves: #1177993
  resolves: #1171450
- rpm verify reports for /var/cache/man
  resolves: #1173496
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1249377 - man 1 man: EXAMPLES: As documented "man -f smail" is not same as "whatis -r smail"
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249377
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