-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-6672 2012-04-26 19:20:03 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : man-db Product : Fedora 17 Version : 2.6.0.2 Release : 5.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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
This update removes hard dependency on cron, adds support for the wildcards in MANPATH and config file and fixes erroneous ".so" link resolution. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [ 3 ] Bug #806086 - Current hard-dependency on cron* makes cron un-installable by default https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806086 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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