Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:07:03 +0200 From: Marcus von Appen <mva@FreeBSD.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>, python@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PYDISTUTILS_AUTOPLIST, stage, man pages Message-ID: <20131017220703.GA24842@medusa.sysfault.org> In-Reply-To: <52604530.6040209@FreeBSD.org> References: <5260203B.6060502@FreeBSD.org> <20131017181944.GA1374@medusa.sysfault.org> <52604530.6040209@FreeBSD.org>
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--zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On, Thu Oct 17, 2013, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 17/10/2013 21:19 Marcus von Appen said the following: > > On, Thu Oct 17, 2013, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > >> > >> If it's not obvious from the subject, I would like to ask if it is > >> possible to make PYDISTUTILS_AUTOPLIST cooperate with staging with > >> respect to the manual pages. > >> > >> As you know, the staging code would automatically compress any > >> uncompressed manual pages while their installation to the stage directory > >> is recoded verbatim. So perhaps there could be an extra step of > >> appending ".gz" to manual page entries that don;t have it. > > > > I am missing an example (port or whatever) here. distutils does not > > specifiy manpages on its own, so they are most likely installed by the > > data_files target. Usually, the proper handling would need to be done there > > or within an own bsd.python.mk hook (ewww). So much for the theory. Can you > > please provide an example port that currently has issues with its manpages > > and staging? > > I am not sure if there is such a port currently in the tree, I haven't looked > for one. We are working on a port of obnam and that's where this would be > useful. It indeed installs a few manual pages via data_files: > > data_files=[('share/man/man1', glob.glob('*.1'))] Except for the fact that 'share/' is wrong for FreeBSD (which you know, I guess ;-), I see what you mean. A fix for that might be to check the directory for something matching on man/man[0-9]/*.[0-9] and append it automatically with a .gz in the ${_PYTHONPKGLIST} record file within the add-plist-pymod target in bsd.python.mk Can you upload the port shar somewhere for a test? Cheers Marcus --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlJgX4cACgkQi68/ErJnpkdISgCePrCKhX467sjIdVBr/FnVvk/T 00YAoJssB0Qp5yuT47dHaDNXfQuI3PNP =UTlB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx--
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