Hi John,

On Thu Jan 23 2020, John Kacur wrote:
> - Add a simple manpage for cyclicdeadline
> - Install it from the Makefile
>
> Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
> ---
>  Makefile                            |  1 +
>  src/sched_deadline/cyclicdeadline.8 | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 54 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 src/sched_deadline/cyclicdeadline.8
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 552b3fe885cc..e2142ba3f4e9 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ install: all install_hwlatdetect
>  	gzip -c src/queuelat/queuelat.8 >"$(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/queuelat.8.gz"
>  	gzip -c src/sched_deadline/deadline_test.8 >"$(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/deadline_test.8.gz"
>  	gzip -c src/ssdd/ssdd.8 >"$(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/ssdd.8.gz"
> +	gzip -c src/sched_deadline/cyclicdeadline.8 >"$(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/cyclicdeadline.8.gz"

I'm just wondering about this. Why are the man pages compressed in the
Makefile? Actually most package management systems compress the man
pages themselves. Users may want to use bz2 or something else.

In fact, I have a patch on top of rt-tests v1.6 in Gentoo which removes
the compression, because portage complains about it.

Thanks,
Kurt