Bug 302380

Summary:	sys-apps/man: please support xz compression
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dror Levin (RETIRED) <spatz>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	gentoo
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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. ***