NAME
aspell-autobuildhash - Autobuilding aspell hash files for some dicts
SYNOPSIS
aspell-autobuildhash [--force]
Options:
--debug Show some extra information.
--force Rebuild the hash file for all dicts providing a
compat file skipping the test.
DESCRIPTION
aspell-autobuildhash is a script that will manage aspell hash files
autobuild, intended to be called from the dictionaries-common tools.
Depending on the aspell
compatibility level and on the compatibility level used for the hash file
if present, will decide whether it must be rebuilt or not. This script will
only work on aspell packages prepared to use it, it will do nothing for other
aspell dict packages.
OPTIONS
--debug Show some extra information.
--force Rebuild the hash file for all dicts providing a compat
file regardless of the compatibility levels found.
PACKAGE MAINTAINERS
To use this system, just provide a $lang.compat file in /var/lib/aspell
($lang stands for the lang basename with variant if any, e.g. gl-minimos
or en). Put a 0 in it or just create an empty one with touch.
Wordlists should previously be compressed either with gzip
(and their extensions set as .mwl.gz or .wl.gz) or preferably
first with aspell prezip and then gzipped (with .cwl.gz extension).
This applies both for plain wordlists and munched wordlists
(in the ispell way) if you use affix compression.
If your package will provide a single hash, install prezipped+gzipped
wordlist as /usr/share/aspell/$lang.cwl.gz or, if prezip is not used,
as /usr/share/aspell/$lang.mwl.gz.
If your package will provide more than one aspell hash for the same CW$lang,
you will need to place each compressed wordlist as e.g.
/usr/share/aspell/$subdict.cwl.gz, and the common $lang.compat as
above. Then create a /usr/share/aspell/$lang.contents file with the
base names of the subdicts, one in a line. For English that will contain,
amongst other possible lines
en-common
en-variant_0
en-variant_1
en-variant_2
en_CA-w_accents-only
No need to use this file if a single hash is being created.
Dictionaries-common scripts will call internally this script and create a
single hash file at /var/lib/ispell/$lang.rws, or hash files at
/var/lib/ispell/$subdict.rws. You must set a symlink to that
files from /usr/lib/aspell/$lang.rws or
/usr/lib/aspell/$subdict.rws as appropriate.
You are also suggested to create empty files at
/var/lib/aspell/$lang.rws or for all of the
/var/lib/aspell/$subdict.rws in the install target of
your package build process. This empty file will be overwritten when the
real hash is created, but will make the hash be removed at package
removal without any magic being done in the postrm and will also help to
keep track about which package owns that file.
aspell maintainer should also call this script from package postinst.
When comparing versions it will get the aspell version from file
/usr/share/aspell/aspell.compat.
AUTHORS
Agustin Martin <agmartin@debian.org>