Man page installation in ebuilds with doman problem

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Installing man pages with doman fails to work properly when the man page has more than 1 period in the file name.

For example:

conserver.cf.1 fails to install.

In fact, seems any man file with multiple extensions fails.

I've looked at the doman script, and perhaps it needs a more resilient way to detect what man[0-9] directory a file belongs in.

Perhaps something like:

man_number = `basename conserver.cf.1 .gz`
man_number = ${man_number#${man_number/%[0-9]}}

This always returns the final digit of the filename, with basename removing any .gz extension.

Comments?

Demo

Here's a quick diff on doman that seems to work for me. I don't much like calling out to basename, perhaps someone else can suggest something.

+ diff -Naru doman~ doman
--- doman~ Thu Aug 29 11:27:25 2002
+++ doman Tue Oct 1 16:40:50 2002
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@
fi
for x in "$@"
do
- md=${x#*.}
- suf=${x##*.}
- mandir=man${md:0:1}
+ md=`basename ${x} .gz`
+ mandir=man${x#${x/%[0-9]}}
+ suf=`basename ${md} .${mandir}`
if [ -e ${x} ]
then
if [ ! -d ${D}${myloc}${myext}/man/${mandir} ]