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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:
Created attachment 479706 [details] man log Sorry for the delay attached is a debug log.
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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
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
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
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).
I can confirm the issue is resolved on F17.
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.
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.