RHBA-2014:1382 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated man-pages-overrides package that fixes numerous bugs is now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The man-pages-overrides package provides a collection of manual (man) pages to
complement other packages or update those contained therein.

This updated man-pages-overrides package includes numerous bug fixes. Space
precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed
to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Technical Notes for information on the most
significant of these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.6_Technical_Notes/man-pages-overrides.html#RHBA-2014-1382

Users of man-pages-overrides are advised to upgrade to this updated package,
which fixes these bugs.

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
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 735949 - gimptool-2.0 doesn't observe DESTDIR environment variable (fix the docs, upstream removed it from manpage)
• BZ - 781499 - Manpage inaccuracy for makedeltarpm
• BZ - 809096 - Missing man page for pkcs_slot
• BZ - 816252 - Unreadable russian mans for some topics
• BZ - 818780 - No man page for oddjobd-mkhomedir.conf
• BZ - 889049 - vhostmd manpage problem
• BZ - 891928 - Inconsistency between 'man man' and 'man -h'
• BZ - 903666 - tar man page does not explain PATTERN format of excludes
• BZ - 964160 - man pages cracklib-packer and cracklib-unpacker are not linked properly
• BZ - 988713 - gzip "--rsyncable" option is not documented in man page
• BZ - 1003511 - rpc.idmapd command options and man pages should update,,,
• BZ - 1007865 - After installation of net-snmp-devel-5.5-44.el6_4.4.x86_64 the command '$ man snmp_read' fails
• BZ - 1011892 - Incomplete man page for iconv
• BZ - 1017478 - manpage for flock(2) says that flock() does not lock files over NFS, when it does
• BZ - 1039986 - ssl_request_cert paragraph in the vsftpd.conf man page gets rendered incorrectly
• BZ - 1057712 - remove fix for ssh_config man page from man-pages-overrides
• BZ - 1058793 - Link in curl man page is wrong
• BZ - 1074599 - man-pages-overrides 6.6 remove bug tracker
• BZ - 1075152 - modify the xinetd man page to make it more clear on what happens to services on xinetd reload
• BZ - 1078319 - core(5) man page shows wrong default value for coredump_filter
• BZ - 1099275 - mailx documentation has conflicting information about environment vairables and config files
• BZ - 1099335 - typo errors in febootstrap-to-supermin man page
• BZ - 1108028 - ciphers(1) man page lacks description of ECC and TLSv1.2 suites
• BZ - 1114785 - host.conf: "multi on" appears to be default

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.6_Technical_Notes/man-pages-overrides.html#RHBA-2014-1382