Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/11/25/12:43:18
Hi
A new version of 'man' has been uploaded to a server near you. This
message contains very important information that you should read before
you upgrade.
Enjoy
Volker
********************************** WARNING ******************************
Everyone who downloaded my previous version man-1.5m2-1, please make sure
to remove /usr/share/misc/man.conf since it's broken and it would
otherwise not be overwritten by the postinstall script.
********************************** WARNING ******************************
The following is from the package README:
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Upgrade to the latest version man-1.5k-12.src.rpm found at
o http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/
This version includes almost all of the fixes found in the above rpm
archive. Some of them are not relevant for cygwin.
More details about the individuell bugs can be found under the URL
o http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXX
where XXXXX represents the numeric bug id.
Changelog:
==========
* Thu Oct 09 2003 Adrian Havill <havill AT redhat DOT com> 1.5k-12
- force utf locale with jnroff (#105764)
- don't let awk in makewhatis scan files that aren't man pages (#105594)
* Wed Oct 01 2003 Adrian Havill <havill AT redhat DOT com> 1.5k-11
- Use UTF-8 in makewhatis when searching for non-English versions of the
phrase "NAME" in man pages
- add "-o" option to makewhatis to specify an alternate whatis db location
* Fri Aug 08 2003 Adrian Havill <havill AT redhat DOT com> 1.5k-9
- cleaned up apropos script bugs (#97006)
- merged all apropos changes into one cleaner patch
* Thu May 22 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj AT redhat DOT com> 1.5k-7
- fix build with gcc 3.3
* Mon Feb 10 2003 Adrian Havill <havill AT redhat DOT com> 1.5k-6
- added patch for korean (#83934)
* Thu Feb 06 2003 Adrian Havill <havill AT redhat DOT com> 1.5k-5
- removed bad argcat patch which made bogus grep queries (#82684)
* Mon Jan 13 2003 Adrian Havill <havill AT redhat DOT com> 1.5k-2
- bump version from j to k
- adjust patches to reflect upstream integration
Cygwin specific changes:
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o added m and 8c to the default man sections list, cygwin has man pages
in directories /usr/share/man/man8c and /usr/X11R6/man/manm
o fixed italian man page
o added /usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/local/man to the default
manpath in makewhatis
o postinstall script adds symlinks from man to manpath for binary and
manpage
Additionally the following things have been changed since the interim
version man-1.5m2-1:
o The following two lines in man.conf
NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc
PAGER /usr/bin/less -isrR
seem to fix the output of ESC sequences
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Certain versions of the FHS recommend putting formatted versions of
/usr/.../share/man/[locale/]manx/page.x
into
/var/cache/man/.../[locale/]catx/page.x.
The keyword FHS in man.conf will cause this behaviour and is now the default.
Explicitly given catdirs override. See comments in the man.conf file.
I would like to ask other package maintainers to remove /usr/.../share/catx
directories from their packages, as man.conf can be edited by the user and
will not be overwritten by the next version of the man package.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GENERIC INFORMATION:
INSTALLATION:
=============
To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your
system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up
the above mentioned package from the 'Doc' category. This package includes
the executable and all documentation.
DOWNLOAD:
=========
Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't
allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need
to find a mirror which has this update.
These mirrors already got the package, the others will probably have
the latest version of this package fairly soon:
In the US
ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
has reliable high bandwidth connections.
QUESTIONS:
==========
If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing
list is the appropriate place.
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