On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 03:19:23AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > the new version of portage has customizable compression ... this is cool as > now people can do bzip/gzip/whatever > > the downside is that it breaks with packages that assume everything is > compressed with gzip ... so here is a list of common things ebuilds should > not be doing: > doman foo.1.gz > dosym foo.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/fooie.1.gz > dodoc README.gz
I'm asking, hoping for an explicit answer: so if upstream provides gzip-compressed files, should ebuilds gunzip them, install them, and then let portage recompress them? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
