Bug 218347 – [Tracker] ecompress/ecompressdir usage in tree

• Product: Quality Assurance
• Status: CONFIRMED ---

[Description Brian Harring (RETIRED) 2008-04-18 23:42:57 UTC]

Summary says it all- several ebuilds rely on it, and while I don't necessarily agree with it (or implementation), at the least having the interface specified in PMS is needed (even if the docs explicitly state ecompress* calls can be noops).

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2008-04-19 23:15:37 UTC]

what ebuilds rely on it ?  it was intended as a backend solution to unify compression handling in portage, not for ebuilds to use ...

[Comment 2 Bo Ørsted Andresen (RETIRED) 2008-04-19 23:30:48 UTC]

dev-lang/python

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2008-04-19 23:37:11 UTC]

let's differentiate here ... are there any packages using these binaries to compress stuff ?

python i see using it for man page symlink updating, but we should handle that in man itself so packages can just do:
echo '.so python2.5.1' > python.1

[Comment 4 Bo Ørsted Andresen (RETIRED) 2008-04-20 11:02:38 UTC]

This should be a complete list. The following packages all use it for trivial stuff like mansuffix:
app-misc/srm
dev-lang/python
media-gfx/xli
media-gfx/xloadimage
media-sound/aylet
www-apps/viewvc

And the following apparently use if for compressing stuff:
dev-util/subversion
sci-electronics/gerbv
sci-libs/netcdf

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2008-04-21 00:58:23 UTC]

subversion, gerbv, and netcdf should all be using prepalldocs / dodoc ... i'd open a bug to get those fixed

as for the man pages, i'll have to make `man` smarter, and then we can fix those like i suggested

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2008-04-21 01:18:33 UTC]

looks like the man code already had a TODO to implement what i proposed ... so i just went ahead and implemented it

man-1.6f-r2 will allow things to work without packages having to care about how man pages are compressed.  so python can do:
echo '.so python2.5.1' > python.1

and when you do `man 1 python`, man will search for all the suffixed versions of 'python2.5.1' until it finds one

[Comment 7 Ulrich Müller 2011-02-25 22:21:14 UTC]

Almost three years have passed and nothing has happened. On the contrary, the number of packages that are using it has increased:

man/doc suffix:
   app-cdr/cdrkit
   app-misc/srm
   media-sound/aylet

compression:
   app-backup/bacula
   app-crypt/gnupg
   dev-vcs/subversion
   sci-electronics/gerbv
   sci-libs/netcdf

Changing this to a tracker bug. I'll open separate bugs for the affected packages.

@Portage team: Could a repoman check for ecompress/ecompressdir be added?

[Comment 8 Zac Medico 2011-02-26 00:22:50 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> @Portage team: Could a repoman check for ecompress/ecompressdir be added?

Yes, it's in git now:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=5aae42eb1cd319c19e92bce890ea7eb3b7d184d7