Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Migrating man page to asciidoc?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 06/26/2011 06:10 AM, Matt Turner wrote:
> For the live ebuild, I don't see any problem with this. I think we
> just want to avoid having to install asciidoc for the released
> catalyst versions.

The tarballs are coming with a rendered man page - it is generated on
the machine running "make dist", not the machine installing catalyst.


>> Do I have to list reasons against this option?
>
> Yeah, this option is really distasteful.

Thanks.


> I think the best solution is to simply hack the timestamp on the
> generated files or something similar. We definitely don't want `emerge
> =catalyst-2*` to require asciidoc and all its indirect dependencies
> for a single man page, and we definitely don't want to check-in
> generated files to git for a variety of reasons.

Again, see above.

Best,



Sebastian