Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 7/6/07, Paul Gibbons <paul@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:19:14 -0700
> "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > I emerge with the doc USE flag and generally have a bunch of stuff in
> > /usr/share/doc.  Most of the time it's the HTML stuff I want to read,
> > but it's a annoyingly laborious to wade through unindexed
> > directgories and get a browser pointing to the right thing.  So I
> > wrote a little Perl script to create a top-level "index.html",
> > organized by package and with a bit of rudimentary pruning.  I
> > bookmarked it in Firefox, and can get to things a lot faster now.  I
> > like the result, and will continue to tweak it here and there.
> >
> > Did I just reinvent a wheel? If not, is there any point it trying to
> > make this part of gentoo?  If so, how would one do that?
> >
> > Current script attached.
> >
> Thanks for the script - it seems to create the index file fine.
> However the index.html files are only readable by root.
> Is there a treat when running emerge to ensure files are readable by
> others?


That's an artifact of your umask.  I run root with a umask of 022, so I
didn't notice the problem.

You can add the line
    umask(0133);
to the script (before the open call) to get a sensible 0644 (rw-r--r--)
mode.

As I've also modified the sorting of entries on each line, in an attempt to
make each index.html come first in its directory, I've attached my latest
copy to this email.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD