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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 letting |
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ecompressdir fix the links ? this works for every other package ive been |
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fixing |
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-mike |
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