> src_install() {

> doman mmv.1 || die
> dosym mmv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mcp.1.gz || die
> dosym mmv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mln.1.gz || die
> dosym mmv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mad.1.gz || die

How does this work with various package managers?

Portage works fine with different PORTAGE_COMPRESS settings.
I guess paludis creates uncompressed man-pages and has three broken links?
And pkgcore?

Is there a reliable/predictable way to create such links?

>>>>> On Wed, 26 May 2010, Torsten Veller wrote:

>> dosym mmv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mcp.1.gz || die
>> dosym mmv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mln.1.gz || die
>> dosym mmv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mad.1.gz || die

> Is there a reliable/predictable way to create such links?

Don't use a symlink, but create a short file with a groff .so request.
See for example the egrep.1 man page, that just contains the one line:

.so man1/grep.1

Ulrich

On Wednesday 26 May 2010 04:01:28 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 26 May 2010, Torsten Veller wrote:
> >> dosym mmv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mcp.1.gz || die
> >> dosym mmv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mln.1.gz || die
> >> dosym mmv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mad.1.gz || die
> >
> > Is there a reliable/predictable way to create such links?
>
> Don't use a symlink, but create a short file with a groff .so request.
> See for example the egrep.1 man page, that just contains the one line:
>
> .so man1/grep.1

wonder if this would be a useful repoman check & recommendation. dare i grep
the tree to find all the existing miscreants ...

personally i prefer '.so grep.1' to avoid the redundancy ...
-mike