Bug 172496 – add ECOMPRESS_MASK support to ecompressdir

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2007-03-28 02:33:31 UTC]

<Mr_Bones_> vapier: so you could set something like ECOMPRESSDIR_IGNORE="html pdfs pictures" and have ecompressdir ignore those dirs
<vapier> Mr_Bones_: i added support for ignoring of whole directories, hadnt thought about doing that as well
<vapier> sounds feasible, but i'd do it bash style ECOMPRESS_MASK="html *.pdf *.gif"
<vapier> then you could do use regular bash expressions

[Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2007-10-06 15:32:55 UTC]

Status?

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2008-07-24 15:10:19 UTC]

*** Bug 232843 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2008-07-24 15:12:05 UTC]

I think we should do like antarus suggested and use the `file` command to separate out the text files and just compress those since generally those are the only ones that we really like to have compressed.

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2008-08-15 22:08:53 UTC]

Created attachment 163003 [details, diff]
Add new PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES variable.

Add a PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES config variable which is used to filter ecompress arguments. This allows the user to control compression of files installed dodoc, excluding files with specific suffix patterns. The current default value includes all of the suffixes that are recognized by dohtml, as well as pdf.

(In reply to comment #3)
> I think we should do like antarus suggested and use the `file` command to
> separate out the text files and just compress those since generally those are
> the only ones that we really like to have compressed.

I ruled out this approach since the `file` output would be annoying to parse (portable?) and we might want to exclude things like html files too.

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2008-09-21 23:40:44 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Created an attachment (id=163003) [edit]
> Add new PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES variable.

This is released in 2.2_rc9.