Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 23:14:40 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: python@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PYDISTUTILS_AUTOPLIST, stage, man pages Message-ID: <52604530.6040209@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20131017181944.GA1374@medusa.sysfault.org> References: <5260203B.6060502@FreeBSD.org> <20131017181944.GA1374@medusa.sysfault.org>
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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'))]
http://liw.fi/obnam/
--
Andriy Gapon
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