Issued:
2013-01-07
Updated:
2013-01-07

RHBA-2012:0700 - man bug fix update

Synopsis

man bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated man packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The man packages provide the man, apropos, and whatis tools to find information and documentation about the Linux system.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • 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#749288)

All users of man are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • man-1.6d-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • man-1.6d-3.el5.ia64.rpm
  • man-debuginfo-1.6d-3.el5.s390x.rpm
  • man-debuginfo-1.6d-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • man-1.6d-3.el5.i386.rpm
  • man-1.6d-3.el5.s390x.rpm
  • man-debuginfo-1.6d-3.el5.i386.rpm
  • man-1.6d-3.el5.ppc.rpm
  • man-debuginfo-1.6d-3.el5.ia64.rpm
  • man-1.6d-3.el5.src.rpm
  • man-debuginfo-1.6d-3.el5.ppc.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information