Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

Thanks Albert and Daniel for the replies.

Daniel Pielmeier writes:
> 2008/10/30 Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल <wahjava.ml@×××××.com>:
>> While trying to lookup XCB API documentation (
>> /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now
>> I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the
>> decompressed form, hmm...?

> I tink there is the PORTAGE_COMPRESS variable.

> Set PORTAGE_COMPRESS="" in make.conf and portage will not compress
> documentation.

> There is also PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES which you can extend
> to your needs. Currently it defaults to
> PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES="css gif htm[l]? jp[e]?g js pdf png"

,----
| % emerge --info libxcb
| Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64)
| =================================================================
|                         System Settings
| =================================================================
| System uname: Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r7-x86_64-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.00GHz-with-glibc2.2.5
| Timestamp of tree: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:45:01 +0000
| distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
| ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
| app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
| dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
| dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
| dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
| dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
| dev-util/cmake:      2.6.2
| sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
| sys-apps/openrc:     0.3.0-r1
| sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
| sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
| sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
| sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
| sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
| sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
| virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
| ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
| CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
| CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fforce-addr -mtune=nocona -march=nocona -mmmx -msse2 -msse3 -ggdb"
| CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
| CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/share/config /var/bind"
| CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d
| /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release
| /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
| CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fforce-addr -mtune=nocona -march=nocona -mmmx -msse2 -msse3 -ggdb"
| DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
| FEATURES="buildpkg ccache collision-protect distlocks fakeroot
| fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned
| sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv
| usersandbox" 
| GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.cambrium.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/
| ftp://mirror.cambrium.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://mirror.gentoo.no/
| ftp://mirror.bih.net.ba/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.ludost.net/gentoo/" 
| LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
| LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
| LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style,both"
| LINGUAS="hi en en_US"
| MAKEOPTS="-j3"
| PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
| PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
| --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180
| --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" 
| PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
| PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
| PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/perl-experimental
| /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/emacs
| /usr/portage/local/layman/xemacs /usr/portage/local/layman/haskell
| /usr/local/portage" 
| SYNC="rsync://rsync.asia.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
| USE="X a52 aac accessibility acl acpi alsa amd64 ao artworkextra
| audiofile avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo
| caps cdr cli cracklib crypt cscope cups curl dbus dirac djvu doc dri dvd
| dvdr emacs exif ffmpeg flac fontconfig fortran gdbm gif gnome
| gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml guile hal hashstyle htmlhandbook
| iconv idn imlib ipv6 isdnlog jingle jpeg jpeg2k kde latex lcms ldap
| libcaca libffi libnotify libsamplerate loop-aes lzma mad maildir midi
| mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap musepack mysql ncurses networkmanager nls nntp nptl
| nptlonly offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre perl plasma png
| policykit postgres pppd pth pulseaudio python qt4 readline reflection
| ruby schroedinger sdl session sndfile speex spell spl sqlite3 sse sse2
| ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcl tcpd tetex tex theora tiff
| truetype unicode urandom vim-syntax vnc vorbis xattr xcb xcomposite xfce
| xft xinetd xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv zeroconf zlib"
| ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy
| dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat
| linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm
| softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias
| authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
| authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav
| dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache
| filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic
| negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack
| vhost_alias" CAMERAS="spca50x" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev
| keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk
| hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="hi en en_US"
| USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel v4l vesa dummy" 
| Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK,
| PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
| 
| =================================================================
|                         Package Settings
| =================================================================
| x11-libs/libxcb-1.1 was built with the following:
| CFLAGS="-O2 -g -ggdb -march=nocona -mtune=nocona -pipe"
| CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g -ggdb -march=nocona -mtune=nocona -pipe"
| 
| >>> Attempting to run pkg_info() for 'x11-libs/libxcb-1.1'
|  * Adjusting permissions for FEATURES=userpriv: '/tmp/tmpdY9i9w/ccache'
|  * pkg_info() is not defined: 'libxcb-1.1.ebuild'
`----

Any ideas why PORTAGE_COMPRESS_* aren't set on my box. BtW, how do I see
what PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES is set to.

Thanks in advance,
Ashish Shukla
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