Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:38:24 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@uni-dortmund.de> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Man pages compressed with bzip2 Message-ID: <42A04F40.7000906@uni-dortmund.de> In-Reply-To: <20050602225624.GB24057@alzatex.com> References: <20050602225624.GB24057@alzatex.com>
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Loren M. Lang wrote: > An application I am porting comes with it's manpages already formatted > and compressed with bzip2, though freebsd doesn't support bz2 manpages, > AFAIK. But if it does, I don't think the ports framework can handle it > as there doesn't seem to be anyway to specify the compression format for > manpages. What is the best solution to this? > > Should I just write a post-build target that will decompress it and > recompress it as gz I'd do just that: recompress. gzip decompresses much faster, so .bz2 man pages may become an annoyance on slower machines. > and just add bzip2 as a dependency or should I just A build dependency. > include a gzipped version in the files directory? I think the ports tree is large enough at it is, let's not bloat it.
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