Bug 384941

Summary:	devmanual does not mention that there are recursive versions of the do* install functions
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Moritz Schlarb <moschlar>
Component:	Devmanual	Assignee:	Gentoo Devmanual Team <devmanual>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	moschlar
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	NeedPatch
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Moritz Schlarb 2011-09-29 14:32:38 UTC

I recently tried writing my own ebuild and I used a for loop to install all contents of a directory, until someone pointed out, that I simply could use doins -r instead.
I can't find any mention about the recursive behaviour in the devmanual page: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/function-reference/install-functions/index.html
This could propably be added!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-01-19 10:18:02 UTC

Patch ? :)

Comment 2 Moritz Schlarb 2017-06-10 06:54:14 UTC

(In reply to Markos Chandras from comment #1)
> Patch ? :)

There you go:
https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual.gentoo.org/pull/66

;-)