-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-5743 2013-04-15 23:17:09 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : ncurses Product : Fedora 18 Version : 5.9 Release : 10.20130413.fc18 URL : http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html Summary : Ncurses support utilities Description : The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses (new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for the discontinued 4.4 BSD classic curses library.
This package contains support utilities, including a terminfo compiler tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion tool captoinfo.
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This update adds C++ shared libraries, modifies clear to clear the scrollback buffer and includes the latest upstream bugfixing patch. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Mon Apr 15 2013 Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar@redhat.com 5.9-10.20130413 - update to 20130413 * Mon Mar 18 2013 Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar@redhat.com 5.9-9.20130316 - update to 20130316 - include shared ncurses C++ libraries (#911540) * Wed Jan 30 2013 Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar@redhat.com 5.9-8.20130126 - update to 20130126 - clear scrollback buffer in clear (#815790) - make -base and -term subpackages noarch - make some dependencies arch-specific -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #815790 - [RFE-privacy] clear the console https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815790 [ 2 ] Bug #911540 - ncurses C++ dynamic library missing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=911540 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ncurses' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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