From: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt.kanzenbach@linutronix.de>
To: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>,
RT <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] rt-tests: cyclicdeadline: Add a simple manpage for cyclicdeadline
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 08:13:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2tsqcjj.fsf@kurt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.2001271213260.7301@planxty>
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Hi John,
On Mon Jan 27 2020, John Kacur wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote:
>> I'm just wondering about this. Why are the man pages compressed in the
>> Makefile? Actually most package management systems compress the man
>> pages themselves. Users may want to use bz2 or something else.
>>
>> In fact, I have a patch on top of rt-tests v1.6 in Gentoo which removes
>> the compression, because portage complains about it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kurt
>>
>
> I think it's because man pages are generally installed as .gz files on
> most distros. Although the Makefile is designed to work well with package
> management systems, it should also work correctly stand alone.
>
> If you want to submit a patch that would optionally use a different kind
> of compression or otherwise handle things without breaking the current
> defaults, I would likely accept it.
Sounds good. I'll come up with a patch and keeping the existing defaults.
Thanks,
Kurt
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-23 20:50 [PATCH 0/9] rt-tests: Miscellaneous fixes John Kacur
2020-01-23 20:50 ` [PATCH 1/9] rt-tests: queuelat: Assume queuelat is in the path John Kacur
2020-01-23 20:50 ` [PATCH 2/9] rt-tests: cyclicdeadline: Add a simple manpage for cyclicdeadline John Kacur
2020-01-27 10:44 ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-01-27 17:40 ` John Kacur
2020-01-28 7:13 ` Kurt Kanzenbach [this message]
2020-01-23 20:50 ` [PATCH 3/9] rt-tests: pi_stress: Add short options to usage message John Kacur
2020-01-23 20:50 ` [PATCH 4/9] rt-tests: pi_stress: Sync man page with help John Kacur
2020-01-23 20:50 ` [PATCH 5/9] rt-tests: queuelat: get_cpuinfo_mhz.sh highest value John Kacur
2020-01-23 20:50 ` [PATCH 6/9] rt-tests: determine_maximum_mpps.sh: Fix quoting and other shell issue John Kacur
2020-01-23 20:50 ` [PATCH 7/9] rt-tests: ptsematest: Update man page and add -h option John Kacur
2020-01-23 20:50 ` [PATCH 8/9] rt-tests: queuelat: Fixes to man page and display_help John Kacur
2020-01-23 20:50 ` [PATCH 9/9] rt-tests: svsematest: Display help with an error message for -h John Kacur
2020-01-27 21:44 ` [PATCH 0/9] rt-tests: Miscellaneous fixes Clark Williams
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