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Re: Installing compressed info files
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: Installing compressed info files |
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Tue, 27 May 2008 13:13:27 -0700 |
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"Bernd Jendrissek" <address@hidden> writes:
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Not all system's man programs cope with compressed manpages. I know
>> some (most? all?) GNU/Linux distributions install compressed manpages,
>> I assume it's rpm/deb/... features that compress them, right?
>
> I assume so too. I think non-archaic rpm has some nice macros that
> make building autoconfiscated packages easy. My bet would be that
> those rpm macros compress the docs.
Similarly, the dh_compress program used in many Debian packages
automatically finds and compresses any Info documents and
manpages (and some other kinds of files) that are not already
compressed.
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Ben Pfaff
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