384941 – devmanual does not mention that there are recursive versions of the do* install functions

Bug 384941 - devmanual does not mention that there are recursive versions of the do* install functions

Summary: devmanual does not mention that there are recursive versions of the do* insta...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Documentation
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Devmanual (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Devmanual Team

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Keywords:	NeedPatch

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Reported:	2011-09-29 14:32 UTC by Moritz Schlarb
Modified:	2018-11-08 14:15 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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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

;-)