[ol6_u7_base] lynx-2.8.6-27.el6.i686

Lynx is a text-based Web browser. Lynx does not display any images,
but it does support frames, tables, and most other HTML tags. One
advantage Lynx has over graphical browsers is speed; Lynx starts and
exits quickly and swiftly displays web pages.

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• Fri May 14 2010 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-27

  - use more suitable starting site (#591553)

• Mon Apr 19 2010 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-26

  - do not crash when there is no terminal (#582544)

• Wed Jan 13 2010 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-25

  - make it possible to delete a bookmark when ~/lynx_bookmarks.html is writable
    by group

• Thu Jan 07 2010 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-24

  - updated sources URL
  - cleanup in BuildRequires
  - rediffed patches with non-zero offset

• Mon Nov 23 2009 Dennis Gregorovic <dgregor@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-23.1

  - Rebuilt for RHEL 6

• Fri Nov 06 2009 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-23

  - removed dependency on indexthml
  - changed default homepage to start.fedoraproject.org

• Fri Aug 21 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-22

  - rebuilt with new openssl

• Sat Jul 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.8.6-21

  - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

• Wed Feb 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.8.6-20

  - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

• Sat Jan 17 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-19

  - rebuild with new openssl

• Fri Nov 07 2008 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-18

  - Fixed CVE-2008-4690 lynx: remote arbitrary command execution.
    via a crafted lynxcgi: URL (thoger)

• Thu Aug 07 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-17

  - fix license tag

• Thu May 29 2008 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-16

  - updated to latest stable version 2.8.6rel5
  - Resolves: #214205
  - added build patches from Dennis Gilmore
  - skipped 2 releases to correct the NVR path

• Tue Feb 19 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.8.6-13

  - Autorebuild for GCC 4.3

• Wed Jan 30 2008 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-12

  - added telnet, rsh, zip and unzip to BuildRequires
  - Resolves: #430508

• Tue Jan 08 2008 Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-11

  - fixed crash when using formatting character '$' in translation
  - Resolves: #426449

• Tue Dec 11 2007 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-10

  - add default-colors option, change default setting (#409211)

• Wed Dec 05 2007 Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject dot org> - 2.8.6-9

  - Rebuild for openssl bump

• Wed Dec 05 2007 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-8

  - rebuild

• Fri Oct 12 2007 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-7

  - add provides:text-www-browser flag

• Tue Oct 02 2007 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-6

  - fix 311031 - fix argument parsing

• Tue Aug 28 2007 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject dot org> - 2.8.6-5

  - Rebuild for selinux ppc32 issue.

• Tue Jul 17 2007 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-4

  - remove default-colors option

• Fri Feb 23 2007 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-3

  - incorporate package review feedback (#226113)

• Wed Oct 25 2006 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-2

  - add japanese unicode support (#143787)

• Tue Oct 24 2006 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com> - 2.8.6-1

  - update to 2.8.6

• Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 2.8.5-28.1

  - rebuild

• Tue May 30 2006 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com> - 2.8.5-28

  - add buildreq gettext (#193515)

• Fri Feb 10 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 2.8.5-27.2.1

  - bump again for double-long bug on ppc(64)

• Tue Feb 07 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 2.8.5-27.2

  - rebuilt for new gcc4.1 snapshot and glibc changes

• Fri Dec 09 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Sun Nov 13 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 2.8.5-27

  - Apply patch to fix CVE-2005-2929 (bug #172973).

• Thu Nov 10 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 2.8.5-26

  - rebuilt against new openssl

• Wed Nov 09 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 2.8.5-25

  - Rebuild for new openssl.

• Mon Oct 17 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 2.8.5-24

  - Apply patch to fix CAN-2005-3120 (bug #170253).

• Tue Mar 29 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 2.8.5-23

  - Fixed fix for bug #90302 (bug #152146).

• Wed Mar 02 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 2.8.5-22

  - Rebuild for new GCC.

• Thu Jan 06 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 2.8.5-21

  - Fixed <option> handling (bug #90302).

• Thu Dec 30 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 2.8.5-20

  - Added --enable-locale-charset compilation option, set LOCALE_CHARSET
    on in the config file and removed i18ncfg patch (bug #124849).

• Fri Nov 19 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 2.8.5-19

  - 2.8.5rel1.  Fixes bug #139783.

• Thu Jul 08 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 2.8.5-18

  - Removed perl dependencies (bug #127423).

• Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Tue May 25 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 2.8.5-16

  - No longer need lynx-284-ipv6-salen.patch.
  - No longer need lynx2-8-2-telnet.patch.

• Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> 2.8.5-15

  - rebuilt

• Mon Dec 01 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 2.8.5-14

  - Updated to dev16, fixing bug #110196.
  - No longer need crlf patch.
  - Use shipped ja translations.
  - Use %find_lang.
  - Default config file now sets UTF-8 (bug #110986).

• Fri Jun 06 2003 Adrian Havill <havill@redhat.com> 2.8.5-13

  - use wide version of ncurses for UTF-8

• Wed Jun 04 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Wed Jan 22 2003 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Wed Jan 22 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 2.8.5-10

  - Fix CRLF issue.

• Tue Jan 07 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 2.8.5-9

  - rebuild

• Fri Dec 20 2002 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> 2.8.5-8

  - _smp_mflags

• Thu Dec 12 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - use openssl pkg-config data, if available

• Wed Nov 20 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>

  - rebuild on all arches

• Thu Aug 08 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de>

  - remove menu entry (#69457)

• Fri Jun 21 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>

  - automated rebuild

• Thu May 23 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>

  - automated rebuild

• Mon May 13 2002 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 2.8.5-3

  - Fix build with current toolchain

• Thu Nov 22 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 2.8.5-2

  - Update (dev5)

• Wed Oct 24 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 2.8.5-1

  - Update (dev3)
  - Use "display" as image viewer (#54184)

• Tue Jul 31 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 2.8.4-17

  - 2.8.4 release - no need to ship prerelease code...

• Thu Jul 19 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 2.8.4-16

  - update to 2.8.4p5 (bugfix release)

• Tue Jul 10 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 2.8.4-15

  - Add site-cfg file (#43841)

• Sun Jun 24 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 2.8.4-14

  - 2.8.4p2

• Thu Jun 07 2001 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.de>

  - support newer gettext version

• Thu May 03 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 2.8.4-12

  - --with-display=ncurses, fixes #37481

• Wed May 02 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 2.8.4-11

  - Add Czech/Slovak patches from milan.kerslager@spsselib.hiedu.cz (RFE#38334)

• Sun Apr 15 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - dev20
  - Add ipv6 patches from Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>:
    - enable ipv6, patch for missing sockaddr sa_len
    - buildrequires: slang-devel, zlib-devel
    (Bug #35644)

• Fri Mar 02 2001 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - rebuild in new environment

• Thu Jan 04 2001 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - Fix up more of the i18ncfg patch

• Wed Jan 03 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - 2.8.4dev16
  - Fix up the i18ncfg patch - segfaulting on startup is not exactly
    a nice feature.
  - Mark locale related files as such
  - Mark /etc/lynx.cfg.ja as %lang(ja)
  - Add BuildRequires

• Thu Dec 21 2000 Yukihiro Nakai <ynakai@redhat.com>

  - Add -enable-nls --with-included-gettext
  - Add i18ncfg patch
  - Add Japanese resources

• Thu Oct 05 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - Update build URL
  - Fix help (Bug #18394)
  - Replace the "index page link" (pointing to a Mosaic site with thousands
    of dead links) with a link to Google

• Sat Sep 23 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - Add https:// support (#17554)
  - Update to dev10

• Fri Aug 04 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - Add Swedish and German translations to desktop file, Bug 15322

• Wed Jul 12 2000 Prospector <bugzilla@redhat.com>

  - automatic rebuild

• Tue Jul 11 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - 2.8.4.dev.4

• Mon Jul 10 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - Fix up location of standard page and help page in lynx.cfg (still
    pointed at /usr/doc instead of /usr/share/doc, Bug #13227)

• Thu Jun 08 2000 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>

  - fixed man page lolcation to be FHS compliant
  - use predefined RPM macros wherever possible
  - use %makeinstall
  - cleaned up files list

• Wed Apr 26 2000 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.com>

  - 2.8.3rel.1

• Tue Mar 28 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - 2.8.3dev23
  - add URL header

• Mon Feb 07 2000 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>

  - wmconfig -> desktop

• Sat Feb 05 2000 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - version 2.8.3dev18
  - drop the RFC compliance patch - they seemed to have done theiir own
  - pray that ported patches are okay

• Mon Jan 31 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - Add "passive mode ftp" option, activated by PASSIVE:TRUE in /etc/lynx.cfg
  - turn on "PASSIVE:TRUE" by default
  - deal with the fact that RPM compresses man pages.

• Sun Jan 16 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - Add "view with less" download option

• Wed Nov 03 1999 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - Fix compliance with RFCs describing FTP.
    We can now connect to wu-ftpd >= 2.6.0 based servers.

• Wed Aug 25 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - fix path to help file.
  - turn off font switching
  - disable args to telnet.

• Tue Jun 15 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - update to 2.8.2

• Mon Mar 29 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - apply some update patches from the lynx folks
  - set user's TEMP dir to their home dir to avoid /tmp races

• Sun Mar 21 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - auto rebuild in the new build environment (release 10)

• Wed Feb 24 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - return of wmconfig

• Mon Nov 30 1998 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - create cookie file 0600

• Fri Nov 06 1998 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - update to 2.8.1rel2

• Thu Oct 29 1998 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - build for Raw Hide (slang-1.2.2)

• Sat Oct 10 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - 2.8.1pre9
  - strip binaries

• Mon Oct 05 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - updated to lynx2.8.1pre.7.tar.gz

• Fri May 08 1998 Prospector System <bugs@redhat.com>

  - translations modified for de, fr, tr

• Mon May 04 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - upgraded to 2.8rel3
  - fixed mailto: buffer overflow (used Alan's patch)

• Fri Mar 20 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - updated to 2.8
  - added buildroot

• Tue Jan 13 1998 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - updated to 2.7.2
  - enabled lynxcgi

• Thu Oct 23 1997 Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>

  - updated from 2.6 to 2.7.1
  - moved /usr/lib/lynx.cfg to /etc/lynx.cfg
  - build with slang instead of ncurses
  - made default startup file be file:/usr/doc/HTML/index.html