*- On 14 Jun, Jan Vroonhof wrote about "Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?" > "Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >> find . -name \*.gz | xargs gunzip >> >> >Of course, if he did this, he shouldn't expect the system to >> >upgrade cleanly anymore, and worse, remocving the packages won't >> >delete the uncompressed files. >> >> Hey, his system, he wants to mangle it instead of learning zless, zmore, >> zgrep, etc, that's his perogative. I'm only more than happy to help him >> along. ;) > > It would be nice if the package system supported something like this > (i.e. would consider both the normal and the gz version as part of the > package). Not all formats have "zxxx" equivalents yet (dvi comes to > mind). > > Jan > >
This was discussed on debian-devel last October. See http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9810/msg00041.html for the start of the thread. Don't hold your breath on dpkg supporting both compressed and uncompressed files. A quote from Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the thread I think sums up a number of the developers feelings on this. "There is no reason ever to uncompress a file (lesspipe and lessopen make it unnecessary). When I uncomress(sic) a file, it is done for a reason, and dpkg had bloody well leave it alone." -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
