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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-10653
2012-07-14 21:21:20
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Name        : man-db
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 2.6.0.2
Release     : 4.fc16
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.

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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.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jul 12 2012 Peter Schiffer <[email protected]> - 2.6.0.2-4
- resolves: #657409
  fixed warning when invoking col by the mandb program in cron
- resolves: #824825
  apropos returns correct exit code for invalid man page
* Thu Apr 26 2012 Peter Schiffer <[email protected]> - 2.6.0.2-3
- resolves: #677669
  added support for wildcards in path
- resolves: #693458
  fixed error with .so links
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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
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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
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