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| Name: less | Distribution: SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 |
| Version: 590 | Vendor: SUSE LLC <https://www.suse.com/> |
| Release: 150400.3.3.1 | Build date: Wed Feb 8 15:16:16 2023 |
| Group: Productivity/Text/Utilities | Build host: nebbiolo |
| Size: 525800 | Source RPM: less-590-150400.3.3.1.src.rpm |
| Packager: https://www.suse.com/ | |
| Url: https://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/ | |
| Summary: Text File Browser and Pager Similar to more | |
less is a text file browser and pager similar to more. It allows backward as well as forward movement within a file. Also, less does not have to read the entire input file before starting. It is possible to start an editor at any time from within less.
BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-3.0-or-later
* Tue Feb 07 2023 psimons@suse.com
- Apply "cve-2022-46663.patch" to fix a vulnerability in less that
could be exploited for denial-of-service attacks or even remote
code execution by printing specially crafted escape sequences to
the terminal. [CVE-2022-46663, bsc#1207815]
* Thu Sep 16 2021 danilo.spinella@suse.com
- Add missing runtime dependency on which, which it is used by lessopen.sh.
Fix bsc#1190552.
* Tue Jul 06 2021 predivan@mts.rs
- Fix build on Leap:
Account for distinction in confdir after UsrMerge.
* Thu Jun 17 2021 dmueller@suse.com
- update to 590:
* Make less able to read lesskey source files (deprecating lesskey).
* If XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set, find lesskey source file
in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lesskey rather than $HOME/.lesskey.
* If XDG_DATA_HOME is set, find and store history file
in $XDG_DATA_HOME/lesshst rather than $HOME/.lesshst.
* Add the --lesskey-src option.
* Add the --file-size option.
* With -F, if screen is resized to make file fit on one screen, don't exit.
* Mon Jun 14 2021 jengelh@inai.de
- Remove --with-pic (no static libs are ever produced).
* Sun May 16 2021 dmueller@suse.com
- update to 586:
* Make less able to read lesskey source files (deprecating lesskey).
* If XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set, find lesskey source file
in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lesskey rather than $HOME/.lesskey.
* If XDG_DATA_HOME is set, find and store history file
in $XDG_DATA_HOME/lesshst rather than $HOME/.lesshst.
* Add the --lesskey-src option.
* Add the --file-size option.
* Fix bug which could leave terminal in mouse-reporting mode
after exiting less.
* Fix bug which caused failure to respond to window resize.
* Fix backslash bug searching in tag file.
* Thu Apr 29 2021 dmueller@suse.com
- update to 581.2:
* This fixes a bug found in less-581 where the terminal was sometimes left in
mouse-reporting mode after exiting less.
* Fri Apr 23 2021 andreas.stieger@gmx.de
- less 581:
* Change ESC-u command to toggle, not disable, highlighting per
man page
* Add ESC-U command
* Add ctrl-W search modifier for wrapping search
* F command can be interrupted by ^X
* Support OSC 8 hyperlinks when -R is in effect
* g command with no number will ignore -j and put first line at
top of screen
* Multiple + or -p command line options are handled better
* Add the --incsearch option
* Add the --line-num-width option
* Add the --status-col-width option
* Add the --use-color and --color options
* Display -w highlight even if highlighted line is empty
* If search result is in a long line, scroll to ensure it is
visible
* Editing the same file under different names now creates only
one entry in the file list.
* Make visual bell more visible on some terminals
* Ring end-of-file bell no more than once per second
* Build can use either Python or Perl for Makefile.aut operations
* Fix crash when using the @ search modifier.
* Fix crash in the 's' command due to duplicate free
- drop less-429-save_line_position.patch which was never accepted
upstream due to solving one problem and creating others
* Sat Aug 15 2020 dmueller@suse.com
- update to 563:
* Update Unicode tables.
* Treat Hangul Jamo medial vowels and final consonants as zero width.
* Display error message immediately when -o is toggled and
input is not a pipe.
* Fix regression: make screen repaint when "squished" and
a no-movement command is given.
* Fix erroneous EOF calculation when F command is interrupted.
* Make WIN32C version include this fix from 551:
Don't count lines in initial screen if using -X with -F.
* Fix display bug in WIN32C version.
* Fix memory corruption when built with libtermcap.
* Support libtinfow.
* Wed May 20 2020 andreas.stieger@gmx.de
- less 562:
* Update unicode tables
* formatting changes in man pages
* Sat Apr 04 2020 andreas.stieger@gmx.de
- less 557:
* Update Unicode tables
* Treat Hangul Jamo medial vowels and final consonants as zero width
* Display error message immediately when -o is toggled and
input is not a pipe
* Fix memory corruption when built with libtermcap
* Support libtinfow
* Wed Dec 11 2019 kukuk@suse.com
- Move lesskey* from /etc to /usr/etc
* Sat Sep 21 2019 andreas.stieger@gmx.de
- less 551:
* Add --mouse option
* Add --wheel-lines option
* Add --no-histdups option
* Add --save-marks option
* Support PCRE2 regular expression library
* Redraw screen on SIGWINCH even if screen size doesn't change
* Shell-escape filenames in history so they can be used again
* Ring bell if user enters invalid long option name
* Use PCRE_UTF8 flag for pcre regular expressions when in UTF-8 mode
* Don't count lines in initial screen if using -X with -F
* Fix bug in v command on empty file
* Fix bug in v command when filename contains shell metacharacters
- refresh less-429-shell.patch
* Sun Apr 29 2018 kstreitova@suse.com
- update to version 530 [bsc#1091308]
* Don't output terminal init sequence if using -F and file fits
on one screen.
* When using -S, mark truncated lines with a special character.
The character can be changed or disabled via the new --rscroll
option.
* New command M marks the last line displayed on the screen.
* New command ESC-m removes a line mark.
* Status column (enabled via -J) now shows mark letters.
* Status column shows search matches even if highlighting is
disabled via -G.
* A second ESC-u command will clear search match markers in the
status column.
* Do same ANSI escape code filtering for tag matching that we do
for searching, to help when viewing syntax-highlighted code.
* Catch SIGTERM and clean up before exiting.
* Fix bug initializing default charset on Windows.
* Handle keypad ENTER key correctly if it sends something other
than newline.
* Fix buffering bug when using stdin with a LESSOPEN pipe.
* Update Unicode tables to 2017-03-08.
* Pass-thru Unicode formating chars (Cf type) instead of treating
them as binary chars. But treat them as binary if -U is set.
* Fix erroneous binary file warning when UTF-8 file contains ANSI
SGR sequences.
* Fix bugs when using LESSOPEN and switching between stdin and
other files.
* Fix some bugs handling filenames containing shell metacharacters
* Fix some memory leaks.
* Allow some debugging environment variables to be set in lesskey
file.
* Code improvements:
* Use ANSI prototypes in funcs.h declarations.
* Fix some const mismatches.
* Remove archaic "register" in variable declarations.
- remove the following patches (applied upstream)
* less-429-strict_aliasing.patch
* less-429-terminate.patch
- renumber patches
- remove 'make mkhelp' from the specfile as mkhelp.pl is now
distributed in the tarball
* Tue Apr 03 2018 kukuk@suse.de
- Use %license instead of %doc [bsc#1082318]
* Fri Oct 27 2017 werner@suse.de
- Let lessopen.sh also handle UTF-8 for (g)roff input, only apparmor
as breaker of /usr/bin/file re,mains as "file" is not allowed to
read files within the tool lessopen.sh
* Fri Apr 28 2017 werner@suse.de
- Extend lesskey with mappings for 8-bit controls key escape sequences
* Tue Apr 04 2017 kstreitova@suse.com
- update to version 487
* New commands ESC-{ and ESC-} to shift to start/end of displayed
lines.
* Make search highlights work correctly when changing caselessness
with -i.
* New option -Da in Windows version to enable SGR mode.
* Fix "nothing to search" error when top or bottom line on screen
is empty.
* Fix bug when terminal has no "cm" termcap entry.
* Fix incorrect display when entering double-width chars in search
string.
* Fix bug in Unicode handling that missed some double width
characters.
* Update Unicode database to 9.0.0.
- remove less-429-widechars.patch that is no longer needed
(fixed upstream)
- refresh less-429-shell.patch
- get rid of %{name} macro from the patch names
* Sun Nov 01 2015 astieger@suse.com
- less 481:
* Don't overwrite history file; just append to it. This behaves
better when multiple sessions are running less simultaneously
and using the same history file.
* New command ESC-G goes to end of currently buffered data in a
pipe.
* Disable history feature when compiled with LESSHISTFILE set to
"-".
* In more-compatible mode, make the -p option apply to every file
opened, not just the first one.
* In more-compatible mode, change the -e option to work like -E,
not -EF.
* Treat multiple CRs before LF are like one CR (all the CRs are
hidden).
* Allow "extra" string in lesskey file to append to a multi-char
command (like a search pattern), without executing the command.
* Ignore -u/-U setting while viewing help file, so that underline
and bold chars are displayed correctly.
* Improve detection of "binary" files in UTF-8 mode.
* Fix bug with ++ commands.
* Fix bug where prompt was sometimes not displayed with +G.
* Fix possible memory corruption
* Fix bugs and improve performance in ampersand filtering.
* Allow %% escape sequence in LESSOPEN variable.
* Automate construction of Unicode tables from Unicode database.
- add keyring and verify source signature
- drop upstream patches:
* less-458-out_of_bounds_read.patch
* less-fix_crash_in_hilite_line.patch
* Thu Jun 25 2015 vcizek@suse.com
- fix a crash in hilite_line (boo#915387)
* added less-fix_crash_in_hilite_line.patch
* Fri Mar 13 2015 kstreitova@suse.com
- add less-458-out_of_bounds_read.patch to fix an "out of bounds
read access in the UTF-8" vulnerability (bnc#921719),
(CVE-2014-9488)
* Fri Dec 19 2014 meissner@suse.com
- build with PIE
* Mon Nov 24 2014 tchvatal@suse.com
- Spec-cleaner
- Remove jless less-normal provides/obsoletes they are from 2000
/etc/lesskey /etc/lesskey.bin /usr/bin/less /usr/bin/lessclose.sh /usr/bin/lessecho /usr/bin/lesskey /usr/bin/lessopen.sh /usr/share/doc/packages/less /usr/share/doc/packages/less/NEWS /usr/share/doc/packages/less/README.SUSE /usr/share/licenses/less /usr/share/licenses/less/COPYING /usr/share/licenses/less/LICENSE /usr/share/man/man1/less.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/lessecho.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/lesskey.1.gz
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