[Bug 1754964] Review Request: breezy - Friendly distributed version control system

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1754964



--- Comment #7 from Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #6)
> (In reply to Miro Hrončok from comment #5)
> > (In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #4)
> > > > ln -s brz.1 %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/bzr.1
> > > 
> > > This doesn't do *exactly* the thing you expect. Do something like this:
> > > 
> > > > # Link bzr(1) to brz(1)
> > > > echo ".so man1/brz.1" > %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/bzr.1
> > > 
> > > This ensures man-db does the correct thing for references.
> > 
> > Could you please describe the difference? It sound interesting, I've always
> > just linked the manual page (I remember it was broken before due to the way
> > the Builrtoot Policy handled compression, but that works fine now).
> > 
> > 
> 
> If you do a "man 1 bzr" with this, man's cached references will pull brz(1).
> It also allows manpage indexers to Do The Right Thing(TM) and re-point
> references.
> 
> For example: https://www.mankier.com/1/pkg-config will actually redirect to
> https://www.mankier.com/1/pkgconf instead of just being a copy.
> 
> There's a few other benefits, mostly related to the web of man page
> dependencies and how they're handled by man page parsers.
> 
> I don't know why this isn't documented or made into a macro, but it probably
> should be. It's a very useful trick!
> 

To note, I discovered this trick a while ago and used it in the pkgconf
package:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pkgconf/c/d7c5865721f8c1fa8e8a67fa663416ac1ec0f215

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