Bug 165864 – www-client/surfraw shouldn't create links to gzip compressed man pages

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description James Rowe 2007-02-08 04:50:37 UTC]

surfraw currently installs symlinks to gzip compressed man pages that
breaks with newer portage versions' selectable compression support.  The
attached patch fixes the symlink generation.

  Thanks to Robin Zalecki who mailed me the initial report.  Since he
reported it ecompress has been "fixed" to automatically change the
symlinks, but the patch is the right thing to do regardless.  And it stops 
breakage should the magic be removed in the future.

Thanks,

James

[Comment 1 James Rowe 2007-02-08 04:51:00 UTC]

Seemant,

  Time to cull old versions now?  The arch teams have done a great job,
and 2.1.5 is stable everywhere the old versions are and more.  To that
end the patch only touches 2.1.5, if I'm missing a reason to keep the
others yell and I'll test them.

  Note this bug *doesn't* affect the previous stable version, 1.0.7, at
all as it installs no man pages.

Thanks!

[Comment 2 James Rowe 2007-02-08 04:52:03 UTC]

Created attachment 109479 [details, diff]
surfraw-2.1.5-no_manpage_compress.patch

[Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2007-10-13 01:16:03 UTC]

Wow, I've done nothing since February on this??

I'm a retard.