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Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>: |
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> On Sunday 04 February 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote: |
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> > Mike Kelly <pioto@g.o>: |
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> > > Christian Faulhammer wrote: |
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> > > > Fine. If I have a slotted package, every slot having |
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> > > > ${PN}.foo-${SLOT}.1.gz and I want people to be able to call `man |
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> > > > ${PN}`, how should that be done? |
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> > > |
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> > > You could look at eselect-vi[1] for how it handles this case, |
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> > > specifically the set_man_symlink() function. |
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> > Thanks for the link, I found a solution myself, but nice to see a |
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> > different approach. But my question is, WHY I shouldn't symlink to |
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> > compressed man pages. |
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> uhh, because you dont know what the compressed man page is ? |
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> what's wrong with doing `dosym foo.1 /usr/share/man/man1/boo.1` and |
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> letting ecompressdir fix the links ? this works for every other |
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> package ive been fixing |
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After others explained the problem better, I do some checking in |
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the ebuild and live with the solution. It works. |
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V-Li |
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