415971 – sys-apps/portage: emerge should not install (or, at least, warn) when trying to install empty files with dodoc and similar helpers

Bug 415971 - sys-apps/portage: emerge should not install (or, at least, warn) when trying to install empty files with dodoc and similar helpers

Summary: sys-apps/portage: emerge should not install (or, at least, warn) when trying ...

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Ebuild Support (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2012-05-14 17:33 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified:	2012-05-14 17:33 UTC (History)
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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2012-05-14 17:33:04 UTC

When rebuilding intel drive git version from x11 overlay I noticed the file:

$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/xf86-video-intel-9999/ChangeLog 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 may 14 19:29 /usr/share/doc/xf86-video-intel-9999/ChangeLog

Was installed even being empty. This is not desired when talking about docs, man pages... I think portage should, at least, show a warning when installing this kind of empty files

Thanks

Reproducible: Always