Issued:

2012-04-03

Updated:

2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0449 - man bug fix update

Synopsis

man bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated man package that fixes two bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The man package provides the man, apropos, and whatis tools for finding information and documentation about the Linux system.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, the Japanese version of the man(1) manual page contained a duplicate line in the specification of the "-p pager" option. This update removes the duplicate. (BZ#659646)

• Prior to this update, the makewhatis script, which creates the whatis database of manual pages, ignored symbolic links between pages. With this update, the makewhatis script includes symbolic links in the whatis database. (BZ#749290)

All users of man are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259/

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• man-debuginfo-1.6f-30.el6.i686.rpm
• man-1.6f-30.el6.s390x.rpm
• man-debuginfo-1.6f-30.el6.ppc64.rpm
• man-debuginfo-1.6f-30.el6.s390x.rpm
• man-1.6f-30.el6.i686.rpm
• man-1.6f-30.el6.x86_64.rpm
• man-debuginfo-1.6f-30.el6.x86_64.rpm
• man-1.6f-30.el6.ppc64.rpm
• man-1.6f-30.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 659646

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.