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 bzip2
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 ?
See bug
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, 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
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 `man
${PN}`, how
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
ebuilds
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 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,
specifically
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?
You could look
