Bug 677669

Summary: Manpath Wildcard Regression
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mark Bidewell <mark.bidewell>
Component: man-dbAssignee: Peter Schiffer <pschiffe>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: cjwatson, varekova
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Fixed In Version: man-db-2.6.0.2-3.fc16 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Mark Bidewell 2011-02-15 14:29:45 UTC 
Description of problem:
I was working with CentOS 5 and I was noticing some what appears to be
 a functional regression in F14 mandb:
1)  In the centos configuration you can specify manpaths with wildcard
expansions.  Example:  /opt/*/man would specify all man subdirectories
in /opt.  In F14 this no longer works.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: Every time


Steps to Reproduce:

1.  Add a MANDATORY_MANPATH with a wildcard to the mandb configuration
2.  Attempt to use man to read a manpage at that location.
  
Actual results:
man pages not available

Expected results:
man pages from all matching paths should be available.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Mark Bidewell 2011-02-19 16:22:18 UTC 
Created attachment 479706 [details]
man log

Sorry for the delay attached is a debug log.
Comment 2 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-07-12 11:45:35 UTC 
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
Comment 3 Peter Schiffer 2012-04-24 15:56:35 UTC 
Hi Mark,

thank you for your report and sorry for a late response. The issue should be fixed here:
man-db-2.6.1-3.fc18
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=315035

In F14 we changed man package for man-db, which doesn't support this feature. From this point of view, I'm considering this bug as a RFE, so I'll keep the fix just in rawhide for now.

Please, could you try to test it?


Thanks,

peter
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-04-25 18:00:46 UTC 
man-db-2.6.0.2-5.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/man-db-2.6.0.2-5.fc17
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-04-26 13:28:28 UTC 
man-db-2.6.0.2-3.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/man-db-2.6.0.2-3.fc16
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-04-26 19:28:14 UTC 
Package man-db-2.6.0.2-5.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing man-db-2.6.0.2-5.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-6672/man-db-2.6.0.2-5.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Comment 7 Mark Bidewell 2012-04-29 21:26:28 UTC 
I can confirm the issue is resolved on F17.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2012-05-02 04:37:58 UTC 
man-db-2.6.0.2-5.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2012-05-04 20:32:32 UTC 
man-db-2.6.0.2-3.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.