Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sunday 04 February 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> > Mike Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> > > > Fine. If I have a slotted package, every slot having
> > > > ${PN}.foo-${SLOT}.1.gz and I want people to be able to call `ma
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:07:57 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulrich Mueller)
wrote:
| What if the user specifies some other compression program in
| PORTAGE_COMPRESS?
Then they deserve whatever they get.
Really, this is getting rather silly. The cost far outweighs the gain
of providing the illusion of ch
On Monday 05 February 2007, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> alternatives.eclass is called from pkg_postinst() or pkg_postrm()
then that sucks ... that's beyond my help
-mike
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> On Mon, 05 Feb 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> But my question is, WHY I shouldn't symlink to compressed man
>> pages.
> uhh, because you dont know what the compressed man page is ?
> what's wrong with doing `dosym foo.1 /usr/share/man/man1/boo.1` and
> letting ecompressdir fix the links ?
> On Sun, 04 Feb 2007, Mike Kelly wrote:
> You could look at eselect-vi[1] for how it handles this case,
> specifically the set_man_symlink() function.
> [1]
> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/eselect/trunk/modules/vi.eselect?view=markup
Hm, this looks like it will only handle gzip and b
On Sunday 04 February 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> Mike Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> > > Fine. If I have a slotted package, every slot having
> > > ${PN}.foo-${SLOT}.1.gz and I want people to be able to call `man
> > > ${PN}`, how should that be done?
> >
>
Mike Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> > Fine. If I have a slotted package, every slot having
> > ${PN}.foo-${SLOT}.1.gz and I want people to be able to call `man
> > ${PN}`, how should that be done?
> You could look at eselect-vi[1] for how it handles this case,
> speci
Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> Fine. If I have a slotted package, every slot having
> ${PN}.foo-${SLOT}.1.gz and I want people to be able to call `man
> ${PN}`, how should that be done?
You could look at eselect-vi[1] for how it handles this case,
specifically the set_man_symlink() function.
[1]
Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Saturday 03 February 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> > The new ecompress allows compression of manpages in bz2, if I am
> > right.
> it allows any compression; it's up to the user ... so you cant assume
> any extension
That's my point.
> > So now
>
