From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:46576 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726622AbeIKUi7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:38:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:39:04 +0200 From: David Sterba To: dsterba@suse.cz, Mike Gilbert , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Install uncompressed man pages Message-ID: <20180911153904.GC2154@twin.jikos.cz> Reply-To: dsterba@suse.cz References: <20180806205432.11009-1-floppym@gentoo.org> <20180807140957.GG3218@twin.jikos.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20180807140957.GG3218@twin.jikos.cz> Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.