Am Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:11:38 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon <[email protected]>:
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:41:30 +0100 > Francesco Turco <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > On my system Portage uses the following two variables for compressing > > files in /usr/share/doc: > > > > > $ portageq envvar PORTAGE_COMPRESS > > > xz > > > > > $ portageq envvar PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES > > > css gif htm[l]? jp[e]?g js pdf png > > > > It seems anyway that some files are not compressed: > > > > > $ find /usr/share/doc -type f -regextype posix-extended ! -regex > > > ".*\.(css|gif|htm[l]?|jp[e]?g|js|pdf|png|xz)" | wc -l 79 > > > > I won't list all of them here, just some examples: > > > > > /usr/share/doc/gnome-shell-3.4.2/AUTHORS > > > /usr/share/doc/udisks-2.0.0/html/udisks2/index.sgml > > > /usr/share/doc/groff-1.21-r1/pic.ps > > > /usr/share/doc/automake-1.12.5/amhello-1.0.tar.gz > > > > My goal is to have everything under /usr/share/doc compressed with xz, > > or at least to understand why something is being excluded from > > compression. Perhaps it is due to some additional rules I'm not aware > > of, or because of some bugs. > > > > I checked the ebuilds of the packages the previous files belong to, > > but I found nothing interesting. > > > > It would be great if anyone who is interested could check his/her own > > system too. > > That stuff is controlled by the ebuild, IIRC ebuilds should call > function dodoc so they do with docs what you want them to do. The > function name may well have changed and been superceded since last I > looked. Indeed: starting with EAPI 4 there is a DOCS variable for this. ebuild(5) says it can be an array or a space delimited list, but for me (using EAPI 5) only the array version worked. However, a default list of files is used when it isn't specified. [...] -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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