302380 – sys-apps/man: please support xz compression

Bug 302380 - sys-apps/man: please support xz compression

Summary: sys-apps/man: please support xz compression

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Duplicates (1):	307787 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2010-01-26 22:15 UTC by Dror Levin (RETIRED)
Modified:	2010-03-14 23:17 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Dror Levin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-01-26 22:15:37 UTC

In order to support xz compressed manpages all that is needed is an extra line in /etc/man.conf:
.xz		/usr/bin/unxz -c -d

I've tested it with PORTAGE_COMPRESS="xz" in /etc/make.conf and it works.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2010-01-27 02:37:11 UTC

you need to do a lot more to make it work properly.  added it to man-1.6f-r4.

http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/man/files/man-1.6f-xz.patch?rev=1.1
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/man/files/man-1.6f-man2html-compression-2.patch?rev=1.1
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/man/files/man-1.6f-so-search-2.patch?rev=1.1

Comment 2 Wormo (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-14 23:17:36 UTC

*** Bug 307787 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***