From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: dsterba@suse.cz, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Install uncompressed man pages
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:39:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180911153904.GC2154@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180807140957.GG3218@twin.jikos.cz>
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 04:09:57PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 04:54:31PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > Build systems do not typically compress man pages when installing them.
> > This is generally left to distro packaging mechanisms, which may end up
> > recompressing them using a different compressor.
>
> Makes sense. I've tested this on openSUSE and there's a post-build step
> that indeed recompresses the manual pages. It does not work for me here
> with the uncompressed pages yet for some reason, also the symlinked
> pages would need to be reworked to the manual page links, but that can
> be fixed.
>
> I'll queue this patch for a major release, expecting that some breakage
> might happen. Thanks.
FYI, the patches are now in devel. Expected release is in 4.18.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-11 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-06 20:54 [PATCH 1/2] Install uncompressed man pages Mike Gilbert
2018-08-06 20:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] Install btrfs-ioctl.3 man page Mike Gilbert
2018-08-07 13:48 ` David Sterba
2018-08-07 14:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] Install uncompressed man pages David Sterba
2018-09-11 15:39 ` David Sterba [this message]
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