Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@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 08:42:46
Message-Id: 201005260442.24311.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Links to compressed files (was: gentoo-x86 commit in app-misc/mmv: ChangeLog mmv-1.01b_p15.ebuild) by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Wednesday 26 May 2010 04:01:28 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > >>>>> On Wed, 26 May 2010, Torsten Veller wrote:
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
6 > >
7 > > Is there a reliable/predictable way to create such links?
8 >
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:
11 >
12 > .so man1/grep.1
13
14 wonder if this would be a useful repoman check & recommendation. dare i grep
15 the tree to find all the existing miscreants ...
16
17 personally i prefer '.so grep.1' to avoid the redundancy ...
18 -mike

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