Despite there being pre-generated manpages in doc/ of lxc's source, none are installed if USE="-doc" If USE=doc, all of the packages necessary to recreate the below included files from sgml are pulled into the deptree, when there were already perfectly good manpages sitting there waiting to be used. A list of all manpages included in lxc-0.6.5/doc/: ./lxc-console.1 ./lxc.conf.5 ./lxc-create.1 ./lxc-freeze.1 ./lxc-cgroup.1 ./lxc-destroy.1 ./lxc-wait.1 ./lxc-monitor.1 ./lxc-unfreeze.1 ./lxc-stop.1 ./lxc.7 ./lxc-start.1 ./lxc-execute.1 ./lxc-ps.1 ./lxc-ls.1 A diff between shipped and generated by src_compile(): diff -Nur generated/lxc-cgroup.1 shipped/lxc-cgroup.1 --- generated/lxc-cgroup.1 2010-03-08 15:45:27.000000000 -0800 +++ shipped/lxc-cgroup.1 2010-03-08 15:46:22.000000000 -0800 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ .\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>. -.TH "LXC-CGROUP" "1" "08 March 2010" "" "" +.TH "LXC-CGROUP" "1" "22 January 2010" "" "" .SH NAME lxc-cgroup \- manage the control group associated with a container I'm willing to bet that this isn't the proper way to do things, but it's a simplistic fix to the problem as it occurs (tested working) --- lxc-0.6.5.ebuild 2010-01-30 23:16:54.000000000 +0000 +++ lxc-0.6.5-r1.ebuild 2010-03-08 23:58:30.000000000 +0000 @@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ dodoc AUTHORS CONTRIBUTING MAINTAINERS \ NEWS TODO README doc/FAQ.txt || die "dodoc failed" + doman doc/lxc*.{1,5,7} + rm -r "${D}"/etc/lxc "${D}"/usr/sbin/lxc-{setcap,ls} keepdir /etc/lxc
Good find… when I first packaged LXC it didn't have the man pages shipped with the distribution, thus why it was tied to the doc USE flag.
Fixed, now 0.6.5 installs man pages unconditionally… I would love to fix this upstream but I'm wondering whether I shouldn't just cleanup their buildsystem to be real autotools, last I knew they preferred their hackish way :/
Thanks for the quick response. I wouldn't try to force them onto autotools unless you knew that they're gonna support it ;)
This bug is back with lxc-1.1.0.-r3
(In reply to Jeremy Banks from comment #4) > This bug is back with lxc-1.1.0.-r3 Indeed. app-emulation/lxc-1.1.2 is also affected. Please reopen!
