Package man-db: Information
Source package: man-db
Version: 2.13.1-alt2
Build time: Jan 29, 2026, 12:31 AM
Category: System/Base
Report package bugHome page: https://gitlab.com/cjwatson/man-db
License: GPL-2.0-or-later and GPL-3.0-or-later
Summary: Tools for searching and reading man pages
Description:
The man-db package includes five tools for browsing man-pages: man, whatis, apropos, manpath and lexgrog. man formats and displays manual pages. whatis searches the manual page names. apropos searches the manual page names and descriptions. manpath determines search path for manual pages. lexgrog directly reads header information in manual pages.
List of RPM packages built from this SRPM:
man-db (riscv64)
man-db-cron (noarch)
man-db-debuginfo (riscv64)
man-db (riscv64)
man-db-cron (noarch)
man-db-debuginfo (riscv64)
Maintainer: Ivan A. Melnikov
List of contributors:
Ivan A. Melnikov
Alexey Gladkov
Ilya Kurdyukov
Vladimir D. Seleznev
Andrew Savchenko
Igor Vlasenko
Ivan A. Melnikov
Alexey Gladkov
Ilya Kurdyukov
Vladimir D. Seleznev
Andrew Savchenko
Igor Vlasenko
Last changed
Jan. 28, 2026 Ivan A. Melnikov 2.13.1-alt2
- Use external xz utility for large pages or pages that require a lot of RAM to decompress (fixes handling of pages compressed with `xz -9`).
May 20, 2025 Ivan A. Melnikov 2.13.1-alt1
- New version (2.13.1).
March 19, 2025 Ivan A. Melnikov 2.13.0-alt1
- New version (2.13.0). - Make it possible to switch the filetrigger off (ALT#49709), by lav@: + move sysconfig/man-db to the main package; + skip man-db update when SERVICE != yes. - Use OPTS from sysconfig/man-db in the filetrigger. - Build and package translated man pages.