45232 – compress man pages and docs using bzip2

Bug 45232 - compress man pages and docs using bzip2

Summary: compress man pages and docs using bzip2

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 9870

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2004-03-20 13:45 UTC by Maik Schreiber
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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bzip2.patch: patches dodoc, doman and prepman to use bzip2 (bzip2.patch,2.45 KB, patch) 2004-03-20 13:46 UTC, Maik Schreiber	Details \| Diff
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Description Maik Schreiber 2004-03-20 13:45:15 UTC

Please find the attached patch which modifies dodoc, doman and prepman to use bzip2 instead of gzip to compress man pages and docs. I'm sure you know bzip2 has a better compression ratio than gzip.

The patch works fine with portage-2.0.50-r1.

Comment 1 Maik Schreiber 2004-03-20 13:46:01 UTC

Created attachment 27700 [details, diff]
bzip2.patch: patches dodoc, doman and prepman to use bzip2

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-03-20 18:37:09 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9870 ***