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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Links to compressed files (was: gentoo-x86 commit in app-misc/mmv: ChangeLog mmv-1.
From:       Mike Frysinger <vapier () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2010-05-26 8:42:23
Message-ID: 201005260442.24311.vapier () gentoo ! org
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On Wednesday 26 May 2010 04:01:28 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 26 May 2010, Torsten Veller wrote:
> >> dosym mmv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mcp.1.gz || die
> >> dosym mmv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mln.1.gz || die
> >> dosym mmv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mad.1.gz || die
> > 
> > Is there a reliable/predictable way to create such links?
> 
> Don't use a symlink, but create a short file with a groff .so request.
> See for example the egrep.1 man page, that just contains the one line:
> 
>    .so man1/grep.1

wonder if this would be a useful repoman check & recommendation.  dare i grep 
the tree to find all the existing miscreants ...

personally i prefer '.so grep.1' to avoid the redundancy ...
-mike

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