From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] ncurses: Uncompress man pages
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:28:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311607723.30326.240.camel@phil-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lyzkk2ifpr.fsf@ensc-virt.intern.sigma-chemnitz.de>
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 16:42 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
> writes:
>
> > If the man pages are compressed, then they cause file conflicts between
> > the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the package.
>
> Patching the buildsystem to use 'gzip --no-name' might be a better
> solution than uncompressing the man pages.
>
> Alternatively, fixing/changing man page compression should be done in a
> central class instead per recipe.
I guess the other question that springs to mind is why the manpages are
in the same package as the binaries anyway. Surely they ought to be in
the -doc package, which is presumably wordsize-agnostic, in which case
there oughtn't to be any conflict in the first place.
p.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-25 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-25 13:47 [PATCH 0/5] Various multilib related fixes Richard Purdie
2011-07-25 13:47 ` [PATCH 1/5] multilib_header.bbclass: Add oe_multilib_header wrapper Richard Purdie
2011-07-25 13:54 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 17:11 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-25 20:06 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-26 15:25 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-25 14:35 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 13:47 ` [PATCH 2/5] Fix recipe multilib header conflicts Richard Purdie
2011-07-25 14:08 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 19:11 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-25 13:47 ` [PATCH 3/5] eglibc: Update 2.13 to avoid multilib conflicts Richard Purdie
2011-07-25 13:59 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 19:04 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-25 20:04 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 13:47 ` [PATCH 4/5] ncurses: Uncompress man pages Richard Purdie
2011-07-25 14:13 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 19:14 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-25 14:42 ` Enrico Scholz
2011-07-25 15:28 ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2011-07-25 13:47 ` [PATCH 5/5] package.bbclass: fixup_perms - symlink bug fix Richard Purdie
2011-07-25 14:05 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 14:14 ` Enrico Scholz
2011-07-25 14:15 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-25 19:08 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-25 19:42 ` Phil Blundell
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