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Bug 207784 - net-wireless/b43-fwcutter (and net-wireless/bcm43xx-fwcutter) specifies compression for file in /usr/share/doc
Summary: net-wireless/b43-fwcutter (and net-wireless/bcm43xx-fwcutter) specifies compr...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Joe Jezak (RETIRED)
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Blocks: portage-compress
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Reported: 2008-01-27 22:41 UTC by Mark Loeser (RETIRED)
Modified: 2008-03-22 15:59 UTC (History)
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Description Mark Loeser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-27 22:41:02 UTC 
You shouldn't specify the full path of the file since the user can specify whether to use gzip or bzip2 to compress the files.  Instead refer to where the file can be found.

References for why we should do this can be found at:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169772
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/common-mistakes/
Comment 1 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-22 15:59:55 UTC 
Fixed, thanks, sorry it took a while for me to get to this...