diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/man/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/man-db/default.nix
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/tools/misc/man/default.nix
rename to pkgs/tools/misc/man-db/default.nix
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/man/share.patch b/pkgs/tools/misc/man-db/share.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/tools/misc/man/share.patch
rename to pkgs/tools/misc/man-db/share.patch
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 030feebdd77..6be567e1fba 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ rec {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };
 
-  man = import ../tools/misc/man {
+  man_db = import ../tools/misc/man-db {
      inherit fetchurl stdenv db4 groff;
   };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/build-for-release.nix b/pkgs/top-level/build-for-release.nix
index 4963a97b91c..ecd6263f347 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/build-for-release.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/build-for-release.nix
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ let {
     libxslt
     lvm2
     lynx
-    man
+    man_db
     mdadm
     mesa
     mingetty