Bug 614832

Summary:	docompress unnecessarily complains about ENOENT paths
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Core - Ebuild Support	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	pms
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michał Górny archtester

2017-04-06 07:32:20 UTC

* Messages for package sys-devel/clang-4.0.0:

 * prepcompress: ignoring nonexistent path '/usr/lib/llvm/4/share/man'


However, reading the PMS wrt docompress:

| * If the item does not exist, it is ignored.

https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#x1-14200011.3.3.11

So I'd say the warning is not exactly expected here.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2017-04-06 09:59:11 UTC

This is a feature. :) If the inclusion list contains non-existent paths (which were however explicitly added by the ebuild calling docompress), then most likely this is due to a typo in docompress's arguments.

Note that the three default entries in the inclusion list /usr/share/{doc,info,man} will not trigger any warning.

Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2017-04-06 10:05:04 UTC

See bug 260118 comment 20 and comment 22 for the rationale of this.

Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2017-04-06 10:05:46 UTC

See bug 260118 comment 20 and bug 260118 comment 22 for the rationale of this.