207778 – net-analyzer/snort specifies compression for file in /usr/share/doc

Bug 207778 - net-analyzer/snort specifies compression for file in /usr/share/doc

Summary: net-analyzer/snort specifies compression for file in /usr/share/doc

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Netmon project

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Blocks:	portage-compress 198205
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Reported:	2008-01-27 22:39 UTC by Mark Loeser (RETIRED)
Modified:	2009-04-18 14:56 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Mark Loeser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-01-27 22:39:03 UTC

You shouldn't specify the full path of the file since the user can specify whether to use gzip or bzip2 to compress the files.  Instead refer to where the file can be found.

References for why we should do this can be found at:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169772
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/common-mistakes/

Comment 1 Jason Wallace 2008-11-05 21:06:34 UTC

New ebuild at bug #245752 should resolve this issue

Comment 2 Jason Wallace 2009-04-15 18:43:59 UTC

There is a new ebuild for snort-2.8.4 at the following bug...

bug#266288

This ebuild resolves this issue. Please close this bug.