Re: [gentoo-dev] man pages: build or copy?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 08:37:57 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:

> > I've created an ebuild for net-misc/zerotier [1]. This has a BDEP on
> > app-text/ronn, the build system uses it to create the man pages. The
> > trouble is that ronn is a Ruby program and pulls in a shedload of
> > dependencies, just to install man pages.
> >
> > It seems to me to make more sense to put pre-built man pages in
> > ${FILESDIR}/${PV} and copy them with doman. Is this considered the
> > correct or acceptable way to deal with this?
> >
> > 1) https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588324
>
> If they are quite static (i.e. don't have important content that
> depends on USE flags etc.), generate them, put in a tarball somewhere
> (you can ask a proxy committer to host it for you), then fetch them via
> SRC_URI.

Thanks for that suggestion. I've done it that way with a tarball on
Github.


-- 
Neil Bothwick