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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ecompress heads up
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:42:36
Message-Id: 45C17D29.8040303@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: ecompress heads up by Christian Faulhammer
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4 Christian Faulhammer wrote:
5 > Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>:
6 >
7 >> the new version of portage has customizable compression ... this is
8 >> cool as now people can do bzip/gzip/whatever
9 >
10 > Auto compressing is nice, but I have a question for info files. The
11 > /usr/share/info/<package>/dir file must not be compressed but is with
12 > newer versions. As I read in a bug [1], packages should not install
13 > dir files, so what is the best solution here? Does Portage create the
14 > dir file? Should I remove it from the sandbox image?
15
16 Portage does create the dir files for each of the directories listed
17 in the INFOPATH and INFODIR environment variables. It would be best
18 for you to remove the file from the sandbox image since portage
19 currently isn't doing it for you automatically.
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21 Zac
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23 > V-Li
24 >
25 > [1] <URL:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82933>
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ecompress heads up Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ecompress heads up "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>