Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/4] readme.gentoo-r1.eclass: display readme if content changed (or fresh install)

[Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com>]

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On 6/4/24 2:28 PM, Florian Schmaus wrote:
> And yes, "docompress -x README.gentoo" would make the code muuuuuuuuch
> simpler. And, as additional benefit, would help us get rid of storing
> the whole content of the readme in a environment variable (which is what
> readme.gentoo-r1.elcass currently does). Hence this is what was
> previously suggested, until people complained about it.
> 
> It seems like we are going in circles… :(


I think it would be fantastic if we could drop the crude workaround of
adding the text of the readme.gentoo file into environment to sidestep
the fact that the original design was buggy and stored it as an optional
documentation file vulnerable to corruption as a side effect of default
`docompress` handling, when its purpose was to be a pkg_postinst
metadata file.


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Eli Schwartz

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