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Bug Fix Advisory man-pages bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2010:0571-2
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2011-01-13
Last updated on: 2011-01-13
Affected Products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

Details

An updated man-pages package that corrects documentation errors and omissions is
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The man-pages package provides manual pages from the Linux
Documentation Project.

This updated manual pages package fixes the following bugs:

* previously, the manual page for 'rt_sigprocmask' contained inconsistencies
with the manual page for rt_sigaction in the synopsis (oset instead of oact).
Now the manual page is consistent. (BZ#530570)

* previously, numerous manual pages mentioned the wrong URLs for kernel
documentation. Now, the manual pages correctly point to
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.18. (BZ#532634)

* previously, several available options were not described on the manual page
for iconv. The updated package now describes all options. (BZ#544142)

* previously, the manual page for /etc/nscd.conf did not mention the
configuration options max-db-size and auto-propagate. The updated package adds
documentation for these options to the manual page. (BZ#566303)

* previously, the getrusage manual page did not describe the option
RUSAGE_THREAD. The updated package resolves this issue and mentions this option.
(BZ#572194)

* the previous package contained manual pages for several Source Code Control
System (SCCS) commands. These manual pages were removed because the SCCS
commands are not included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (BZ#582119)

All users of manual pages are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves these issues.


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
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)

SRPMS:
man-pages-2.39-17.el5.src.rpm     MD5: 3a55cf919b27c22856fa8b8884b6131f
SHA-256: 47157d27ecb7a953cc3b3e58ee51ec2edf8b9d1213948a4a825ddcd68cd22a7c
 
IA-32:
man-pages-2.39-17.el5.noarch.rpm     MD5: 7e946914b8d5ef8ceecefec987aba063
SHA-256: 6124850d12bae327ac58dedf0a5a86a0786d9a230bf81d3604c694fadeb25332
 
IA-64:
man-pages-2.39-17.el5.noarch.rpm     MD5: 7e946914b8d5ef8ceecefec987aba063
SHA-256: 6124850d12bae327ac58dedf0a5a86a0786d9a230bf81d3604c694fadeb25332
 
PPC:
man-pages-2.39-17.el5.noarch.rpm     MD5: 7e946914b8d5ef8ceecefec987aba063
SHA-256: 6124850d12bae327ac58dedf0a5a86a0786d9a230bf81d3604c694fadeb25332
 
s390x:
man-pages-2.39-17.el5.noarch.rpm     MD5: 7e946914b8d5ef8ceecefec987aba063
SHA-256: 6124850d12bae327ac58dedf0a5a86a0786d9a230bf81d3604c694fadeb25332
 
x86_64:
man-pages-2.39-17.el5.noarch.rpm     MD5: 7e946914b8d5ef8ceecefec987aba063
SHA-256: 6124850d12bae327ac58dedf0a5a86a0786d9a230bf81d3604c694fadeb25332
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

SRPMS:
man-pages-2.39-17.el5.src.rpm     MD5: 3a55cf919b27c22856fa8b8884b6131f
SHA-256: 47157d27ecb7a953cc3b3e58ee51ec2edf8b9d1213948a4a825ddcd68cd22a7c
 
IA-32:
man-pages-2.39-17.el5.noarch.rpm     MD5: 7e946914b8d5ef8ceecefec987aba063
SHA-256: 6124850d12bae327ac58dedf0a5a86a0786d9a230bf81d3604c694fadeb25332
 
x86_64:
man-pages-2.39-17.el5.noarch.rpm     MD5: 7e946914b8d5ef8ceecefec987aba063
SHA-256: 6124850d12bae327ac58dedf0a5a86a0786d9a230bf81d3604c694fadeb25332
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

519186 - top command documentation
530570 - 'man rt_sigprocmask' documentation error (oset not explained)
532634 - Many manual pages still refer to /usr/src/linux
566303 - nscd.conf(5) missing max-db-size and auto-propagate
572194 - rusage_thread not mentioned in man page for getrusage


Keywords

man-pages


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