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Am Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:11:38 +0200 |
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schrieb Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>: |
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> On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:41:30 +0100 |
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> Francesco Turco <fturco@××××××××.fm> wrote: |
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> > Hello. |
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> > |
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> > On my system Portage uses the following two variables for compressing |
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> > files in /usr/share/doc: |
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> > |
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> > > $ portageq envvar PORTAGE_COMPRESS |
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> > > xz |
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> > |
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> > > $ portageq envvar PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES |
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> > > css gif htm[l]? jp[e]?g js pdf png |
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> > |
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> > It seems anyway that some files are not compressed: |
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> > |
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> > > $ find /usr/share/doc -type f -regextype posix-extended ! -regex |
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> > > ".*\.(css|gif|htm[l]?|jp[e]?g|js|pdf|png|xz)" | wc -l 79 |
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> > |
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> > I won't list all of them here, just some examples: |
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> > |
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> > > /usr/share/doc/gnome-shell-3.4.2/AUTHORS |
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> > > /usr/share/doc/udisks-2.0.0/html/udisks2/index.sgml |
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> > > /usr/share/doc/groff-1.21-r1/pic.ps |
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> > > /usr/share/doc/automake-1.12.5/amhello-1.0.tar.gz |
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> > |
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> > My goal is to have everything under /usr/share/doc compressed with xz, |
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> > or at least to understand why something is being excluded from |
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> > compression. Perhaps it is due to some additional rules I'm not aware |
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> > of, or because of some bugs. |
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> > |
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> > I checked the ebuilds of the packages the previous files belong to, |
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> > but I found nothing interesting. |
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> > |
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> > It would be great if anyone who is interested could check his/her own |
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> > system too. |
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> That stuff is controlled by the ebuild, IIRC ebuilds should call |
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> function dodoc so they do with docs what you want them to do. The |
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> function name may well have changed and been superceded since last I |
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> looked. |
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Indeed: starting with EAPI 4 there is a DOCS variable for this. ebuild(5) says |
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it can be an array or a space delimited list, but for me (using EAPI 5) only the |
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array version worked. However, a default list of files is used when it isn't |
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specified. |
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[...] |
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-- |
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Marc Joliet |
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-- |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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