Bug 180222 – portage double-compresses manpages

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andre 2007-05-29 14:24:49 UTC]

The install of powertop-1.5 installs 
/usr/share/man/man1/powertop.1.gz.bz2
along with the proper 
/usr/share/man/man1/powertop.1.bz2

The first one is called on "man powertop"
and gives garbled output.

After deleting it, all is well.
So, that file should be left out.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =powertop-1.5

Actual Results:  
# equery f powertop
[...]
/usr/share/man/man1/powertop.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/powertop.1.gz.bz2


Expected Results:  
# equery f powertop
[...]
/usr/share/man/man1/powertop.1.bz2

[Comment 1 Pietro Franchi 2007-05-29 16:18:58 UTC]

this is because make install already installs the manual...
not sure what is the correct way of handling this, but maybe we should just leave out "doman powertop.1"

[Comment 2 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2007-05-30 00:03:45 UTC]

I just worked around this with

        gunzip ${D}/usr/share/man/man1/powertop.1.gz

portage needs to eiher uncompress before bzipping or leave .gz files out of the bzipping.

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2007-05-30 00:23:54 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> this is because make install already installs the manual...
> not sure what is the correct way of handling this, but maybe we should just
> leave out "doman powertop.1"

Yeah, "doman powertop.1" is redundant in this ebuild.

This is happening because we don't have -f in the default PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS anymore.  Without -f, duplicate files like this are not overwritten.  If we don't want add -f to the default PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, I suppose we can manually check for duplicates and remove them or else give a QA warning that the ebuild is trying to install duplicate files.

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2007-05-30 00:37:26 UTC]

Created attachment 120666 [details, diff]
make ecompressdir use -f for the automatic decompression phase

This seems to solve the problem without altering the default PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS.

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2007-05-31 01:29:16 UTC]

This has been released in 2.1.2.9.