From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:20:15 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <490A7267.1070808@netspace.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y705lk54.fsf@chateau.d.lf>
Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
> Iain Buchanan writes:
>> Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> While trying to lookup XCB API documentation (
>>> /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now
>>> I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the
>>> decompressed form, hmm...?
>
>> why?
>
>> less /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2
>> cat /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 | bzip2 -d
>> cp /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 ~/; bzip2 -d ~/blah.doc.bz2
>
> I know how to view and decompress compressed-files, but I don't want to
> decompress file and but then after decompressing, I'll lose the ability
> to track the file from portage's database.
I still don't understand - if you know how to view a compressed file
"without" decompressing it, then what do you want to decompress it for?
--
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."
-- Aesop
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-31 2:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-30 13:43 [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ? Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
2008-10-30 14:01 ` Albert Hopkins
2008-10-30 14:02 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-10-30 22:24 ` Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
2008-10-30 22:55 ` Albert Hopkins
2008-10-30 23:39 ` Eric Martin
2008-10-31 0:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-10-31 0:38 ` felix
2008-10-31 5:49 ` Paul Hartman
2008-10-31 10:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-10-30 23:51 ` Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
2008-10-30 22:50 ` Iain Buchanan
2008-10-30 23:48 ` Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
2008-10-31 2:50 ` Iain Buchanan [this message]
2008-10-31 0:40 ` felix
2008-10-31 2:23 ` Andrey Falko
2008-10-31 5:42 ` felix
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