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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration
From:       Zac Medico <zmedico () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2012-12-31 22:53:31
Message-ID: 50E2176B.5020703 () gentoo ! org
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On 12/31/2012 05:21 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
>  pkg_postinst() {
> 
> Some improvements I am not sure how to implement just now:
> - What would be the proper way to "elog" contents
> of /usr/share/doc/${PF}/CONFIGURATION.bz2 and, then, allow the following
> to be shorter:
> 
> 	if ! has_version 'sys-power/acpid'; then
> 		elog
> 		elog "You may wish to read the Gentoo Linux Power Management Guide,"
> 		elog "which can be found online at:"
> 		elog "http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml"
> 		elog
> 	fi
> ?
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 

It seems that you're allowed to call the unpack() function in any phase,
so something like this should work:

  cd "${T}"
  cp "${EROOT}/usr/share/doc/${PF}/CONFIGURATION"* ./
  [ -f ./CONFIGURATION ] || unpack ./CONFIGURATION*
  elog "$(< ./CONFIGURATION)"


-- 
Thanks,
Zac

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