-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-10644 2012-07-14 21:20:56 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : man-db Product : Fedora 17 Version : 2.6.0.2 Release : 7.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 fixes the warning issued while executing the man-db daily cron job on some configurations. Apropos is now returning correct error code and printing error message when invalid man page is supplied. Also, when installing or updating man-db package, the man cache directory is cleared. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Jul 12 2012 Peter Schiffer <[email protected]> - 2.6.0.2-7 - resolves: #657409 fixed warning when invoking col by the mandb program in cron - resolves: #824825 apropos returns correct exit code for invalid man page - resolves: #829553 clear the old man cache on install or update -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #657409 - util-linux-ng supplied /usr/share/man/man1/col.1.gz is not liked by man-db https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657409 [ 2 ] Bug #824825 - apropos returns 0 on non-existing man page https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824825 [ 3 ] Bug #829553 - man-db's daily cron, excessive disk activity https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829553 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/. 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
