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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-5724
2013-04-15 23:15:48
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Name : ncurses
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 5.9
Release : 10.20130413.fc17
URL :
http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html
Summary : Ncurses support utilities
Description :
The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of
updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses
(new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for the
discontinued 4.4 BSD classic curses library.
This package contains support utilities, including a terminfo compiler
tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion
tool captoinfo.
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Update Information:
This update fixes a crash with TERM set to vt100, adds C++ shared libraries, modifies
clear to clear the scrollback buffer and includes the latest upstream bugfixing patch.
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Apr 15 2013 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar(a)redhat.com> 5.9-10.20130413
- update to 20130413
* Mon Mar 18 2013 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar(a)redhat.com> 5.9-9.20130316
- update to 20130316
- include shared ncurses C++ libraries (#911540)
* Wed Jan 30 2013 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar(a)redhat.com> 5.9-8.20130126
- update to 20130126
- clear scrollback buffer in clear (#815790)
- make -base and -term subpackages noarch
- make some dependencies arch-specific
* Thu Oct 18 2012 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar(a)redhat.com> 5.9-7.20121017
- update to 20121017
* Mon Oct 15 2012 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar(a)redhat.com> 5.9-6.20121013
- update to 20121013
- move st entries to -base
- remove obsolete macros
* Fri Jul 20 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> -
5.9-5.20120204
- Rebuilt for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #815790 - [RFE-privacy] clear the console
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815790
[ 2 ] Bug #911540 - ncurses C++ dynamic library missing
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=911540
[ 3 ] Bug #854351 - SIGABRT on login with TERM set to vt100
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854351
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update ncurses' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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