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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-5714
2009-06-02 13:28:19
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Name : mc
Product : Fedora 9
Version : 4.6.2
Release : 4.fc9
URL :
http://www.midnight-commander.org/
Summary : User-friendly text console file manager and visual shell
Description :
Midnight Commander is a visual shell much like a file manager, only
with many more features. It is a text mode application, but it also
includes mouse support. Midnight Commander's best features are its
ability to FTP, view tar and zip files, and to poke into RPMs for
specific files.
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ChangeLog:
* Sun May 17 2009 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> 4.6.2-8
- update to mc-4.6.2 release
- fix segfault in mc editor when pressing ctrl+right (skip one word)
in binary file (#500818)
- don't use dpkg tools for *.deb files (#495649), thanks to Dan Horak
- fix a couple of UTF-8 related display bugs (#464708),
thanks to Rafał Mużyło
- allow switching of trailing spaces/tab highlighting with crtl-v,
patch from Jan Engelhardt (#464738)
- do not change directory in panel to subshell directory
when switched back from subshell (#460633)
- don't try to parse obsolete RPM tags in RPM VFS (#457912),
thanks to Milan Broz
- drop .8bit-hex, .preserveattrs, .cloexec and
.utf8-look-and-feel patch, applied upstream
- sync the rest of patches, adopt upstream version of UTF8 patch
- use correct extension for lzma and regenerate so that it applies
with fuzz==0
- update URL and source links
- add required BR
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #500818 - sigsegv when moving cursor in binary file
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500818
[ 2 ] Bug #495649 - don't use dpkg tools for *.deb files
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495649
[ 3 ] Bug #464708 - midnight commander: minor bugs in utf-8 patches
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464708
[ 4 ] Bug #464738 - Tabs and spaces are represented with other characters instead of
tabs and empty spaces
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464738
[ 5 ] Bug #460633 - directory in panel unnecessarily changed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460633
[ 6 ] Bug #457912 - rpm extfs print "unknown tag"
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457912
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update mc' 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
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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