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From: Francesco Turco <fturco@××××××××.fm>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Some files in /usr/share/doc are not compressed
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:43:22
Message-Id: 1355935290.8809.140661168019761.15C370C7@webmail.messagingengine.com
1 Hello.
2
3 On my system Portage uses the following two variables for compressing
4 files in /usr/share/doc:
5
6 > $ portageq envvar PORTAGE_COMPRESS
7 > xz
8
9 > $ portageq envvar PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES
10 > css gif htm[l]? jp[e]?g js pdf png
11
12 It seems anyway that some files are not compressed:
13
14 > $ find /usr/share/doc -type f -regextype posix-extended ! -regex ".*\.(css|gif|htm[l]?|jp[e]?g|js|pdf|png|xz)" | wc -l
15 > 79
16
17 I won't list all of them here, just some examples:
18
19 > /usr/share/doc/gnome-shell-3.4.2/AUTHORS
20 > /usr/share/doc/udisks-2.0.0/html/udisks2/index.sgml
21 > /usr/share/doc/groff-1.21-r1/pic.ps
22 > /usr/share/doc/automake-1.12.5/amhello-1.0.tar.gz
23
24 My goal is to have everything under /usr/share/doc compressed with xz,
25 or at least to understand why something is being excluded from
26 compression. Perhaps it is due to some additional rules I'm not aware
27 of, or because of some bugs.
28
29 I checked the ebuilds of the packages the previous files belong to, but
30 I found nothing interesting.
31
32 It would be great if anyone who is interested could check his/her own
33 system too.
34
35 Thank you.

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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Some files in /usr/share/doc are not compressed Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Some files in /usr/share/doc are not compressed julian <julian.ospald@××××××××××.com>