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| author | Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> | 2018-10-19 10:24:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2018-10-20 13:16:28 +0300 |
| commit | e8232c7825fdb3783ffa84e90f3ab8f2224a1399 (patch) | |
| tree | 8df75e076d71065e92db84cb59083d2a625debaf /docs/markdown | |
| parent | 066060e8c9402b3ae510de7fbddeeb3b528247c9 (diff) | |
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Remove implicit compression of man pages
Remove the code responsible for implicitly compressing manpages as .gz
files. It has been established that manpage compression is a distro
packager's task, with existing distros already having their own
implementations of compression.
Fixes #4330
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/markdown')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/Installing.md | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/snippets/manpage_compression.md | 7 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/markdown/Installing.md b/docs/markdown/Installing.md index 8348d4a..1aa444a 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Installing.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Installing.md @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Other install commands are the following. ```meson install_headers('header.h', subdir : 'projname') # -> include/projname/header.h -install_man('foo.1') # -> share/man/man1/foo.1.gz +install_man('foo.1') # -> share/man/man1/foo.1 install_data('datafile.dat', install_dir : join_paths(get_option('datadir'), 'progname')) # -> share/progname/datafile.dat ``` diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index 44545c5..69d895e 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -909,8 +909,7 @@ An example value could be `['rwxr-sr-x', 'root', 'root']`. Installs the specified man files from the source tree into system's man directory during the install step. This directory can be overridden by specifying it with the `install_dir` keyword -argument. All man pages are compressed during installation and -installed with a `.gz` suffix. +argument. The `install_mode` argument can be used to specify the file mode in symbolic format and optionally the owner/uid and group/gid for the installed files. diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/manpage_compression.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/manpage_compression.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c96807 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/manpage_compression.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +## Manpages are no longer compressed implicitly + +Earlier, the `install_man` command has automatically compressed installed +manpages into `.gz` format. This collided with manpage compression hooks +already used by various distributions. Now, manpages are installed uncompressed +and distributors are expected to handle compressing them according to their own +compression preferences. |