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| Name: man | Distribution: SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 |
| Version: 2.7.6 | Vendor: SUSE LLC <https://www.suse.com/> |
| Release: 6.22 | Build date: Sun May 5 04:52:16 2019 |
| Group: System/Base | Build host: xinomavro |
| Size: 2494373 | Source RPM: man-2.7.6-6.22.src.rpm |
| Packager: https://www.suse.com/ | |
| Url: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/man-db | |
| Summary: A Program for Displaying man Pages | |
A program for displaying man pages on the screen or sending them to a
printer (using groff).
Authors:
--------
G. Wilford <G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk>
Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
GPL-2.0-or-later
* Fri Nov 09 2018 werner@suse.de
- Add systemd timer service and its timer unit to refresh man
data base daily without using cron (bsc#1115406)
* Mon Apr 16 2018 werner@suse.de
- Skip cron job for cleaning /var/cache/man as there exists
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/man-db.conf
* Thu Dec 07 2017 kukuk@suse.de
- Add man-db-create.service to fill /var/cache/man at bootup
if the directory is empty (required by FHS and for transactional
updates).
- Don't fill /var/cache/man if it does not exist yet (needed for
transactional updates).
- We don't need to package /var/cache/man, systemd-tmpfiles is
creating it already for us.
* Wed Nov 29 2017 werner@suse.de
- Make /var/cache/man a real directory as in system-user-man the
directory is gone
* Thu Nov 23 2017 rbrown@suse.com
- Replace references to /var/adm/fillup-templates with new
%_fillupdir macro (boo#1069468)
* Tue Nov 21 2017 werner@suse.de
- Require package man-pages at build time for testing
* Thu Feb 16 2017 werner@suse.de
- Use _libexecdir instead of _prefix/lib
* Sat Jan 21 2017 kukuk@suse.com
- Require user and group man
* Fri Dec 16 2016 werner@suse.de
- Update to version 2.7.6
* Many bug fixes
* man understands the <page>.<section> form on its command line,
so for example 'man chmod.2' is now the same as 'man 2 chmod'
(Contributed by Mihail Konev)
* Document that 'man -K' searches page source, not rendered text
- Rename patch man-db-2.7.1.dif which becomes man-db-2.7.6.dif
- Port the patches
man-MAN_POSIXLY_CORRECT-man1.dif
man-db-2.6.3-chinese.dif
man-db-2.6.3-listall.dif
man-db-2.6.3-section.dif
man-db-2.7.1-firefox.dif
man-db-2.7.1-security4.dif
man-db-2.7.1-zio.dif
- Add an rpmlintrc file man-rpmlintrc as we apply a patch
on generated manual pages
- Do not wrap man anymore (boo#986211)
* Fri Jun 24 2016 werner@suse.de
- Give man(1) command a home that is let pager less(1) handle its
history (boo#986211)
* Mon Mar 21 2016 bwiedemann@suse.com
- Add reproducible.patch to fix build-compare (bnc#971922)
* Mon Jun 08 2015 werner@suse.de
- Allow root to use man command within its home
* Fri May 29 2015 werner@suse.de
- Own /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d if not owned by package filesystem
* Thu May 28 2015 werner@suse.de
- Update to version 2.7.1
For the first time since version 2.4.0, the database format has
changed slightly, so you will need to run 'mandb --create' after
installing the new version to rebuild your databases from scratch.
- Fixes
* Various portability fixes for Solaris, contributed by Peter Bray.
* man now runs correctly when its current working directory has been
deleted. (As a result of this fix, man-db now requires
libpipeline >= 1.4.0.)
* 'man -a' sends its prompts to /dev/tty rather than to stderr, and
likewise reads replies from /dev/tty rather than from stdin.
* Be more careful to avoid using or double-closing closed database
handles. Fixes test suite failures on some systems.
* Patch the fdutimens function imported from Gnulib to work around a
libc bug in GNU/Hurd.
* Fix test suite in the case where the system supports
high-precision timestamps but the file system containing the build
directory does not.
* lexgrog now filters terminal escape sequences out of cat pages
before trying to parse them.
* Tools that consider the terminal line length now prioritise the
COLUMNS environment variable above the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl.
* Manpath elements are no longer canonicalised before being inserted
into the search path; this caused the use of incorrect catpaths in
some cases. This was broken by the LANGUAGE-handling fixes in
2.5.4.
* Remove test suite dependency on realpath(1).
* Fix a test failure when configured with --enable-undoc.
* Run the pager in man's original working directory rather than in
the manual hierarchy. (As a result of this fix, man-db now
requires libpipeline >= 1.3.0.)
* mandb only creates a cache directory tag if the catpath is
different from the manpath, since it should only be created in
directories that consist entirely of cached information.
- Improvements
* Ship a systemd tmpfiles snippet to clean up old cat files after a
week.
* The modification time of manual databases is now simply stored in
the mtime of the database files themselves, rather than using a
special row. This makes databases reproducible between
otherwise-identical installations, as long as the underlying
database has predictable behaviour. As a bonus, man-db now uses
high-precision timestamps to determine whether it needs to update
databases.
* Timestamps of manual pages are also now stored in the database
with high precision and compared accordingly.
* Files are now ordered by first physical extent before reading
them, for substantial performance improvements in operations such
as mandb and 'man -K'.
* 'man -H' shows a better error message if no browser is configured.
* zsoelim is now installed in $pkglibexecdir, to avoid clashes with
other packages.
- Rename patches
man-db-2.6.5-firefox.dif becomes man-db-2.7.1-firefox.dif
man-db-2.6.5-security4.dif becomes man-db-2.7.1-security4.dif
man-db-2.6.5-zio.dif becomes man-db-2.7.1-zio.dif
man-db-2.6.5.dif becomes man-db-2.7.1.dif
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