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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Links to compressed files (was: gentoo-x86 commit in app-misc/mmv: ChangeLog mmv-1.01b_p15.ebuild)
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 08:01:39
Message-Id: 19452.54616.365393.352938@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Links to compressed files (was: gentoo-x86 commit in app-misc/mmv: ChangeLog mmv-1.01b_p15.ebuild) by Torsten Veller
1 >>>>> On Wed, 26 May 2010, Torsten Veller wrote:
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3 >> dosym mmv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mcp.1.gz || die
4 >> dosym mmv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mln.1.gz || die
5 >> dosym mmv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mad.1.gz || die
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7 > Is there a reliable/predictable way to create such links?
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9 Don't use a symlink, but create a short file with a groff .so request.
10 See for example the egrep.1 man page, that just contains the one line:
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12 .so man1/grep.1
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14 Ulrich

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