update symlinks after compressdoc

[symnem]

compressdoc leaves dangling symlinks (LOTS of them) when it's run after building LFS.

this script solves them (ad hoc).

hopefully you can find a more elegant solution.

cat > /tmp/updlink <<"."
#!/bin/bash
dir=`dirname $1`
base=`basename $1`
tgt=`readlink $1`
if [ -e "$dir/$tgt.gz" ]; then
  rm -f $1
  ln -s "$tgt.gz" "$1.gz"
elif [ -e "$dir/$tgt.bz2" ]; then
  rm -f $1
  ln -s "$tgt.bz2" "$1.bz2"
fi
.

chmod 755 /tmp/updlink

cd /usr/share/man
find -L . -type l -print0|xargs -0l /tmp/updlink 

[Igor Živković]

I've just run compressdoc script (I didn't use it so far on my systems) and I don't see any broken links in the /usr/share/man directory. Could you paste which ones are broken on your LFS?

[bdubbs@…]

Looking at the script itself, there are comments about how much space is saved by compressing man pages. It comes out to about 20 Mb. Is this significant on today's systems where disk space costs about 1 USD (or less) per Gb?

Perhaps we should consider removing the compressdoc section completely.

[Igor Živković]

Well, I certainly don't use it so I'm all for archiving it if there are no objections.

[Igor Živković]

Fixed at r12435.

[bdubbs@…]

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