On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 09:51 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > I'm a bit lost on the use of %doc for manpages. > > I'm building a package of Heimdal Kerberos, so I'm following a lot of > the MIT krb5 package as a pattern. > > Should manpages be marked as %doc, or just other documentation? Files under /usr/share/{man,info} are automagically marked %doc by rpmbuild.

Le vendredi 20 juin 2008 à 12:28 +1000, Andrew Bartlett a écrit : > On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 21:35 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 09:51 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > > I'm a bit lost on the use of %doc for manpages. > > > > > > I'm building a package of Heimdal Kerberos, so I'm following a lot of > > > the MIT krb5 package as a pattern. > > > > > > Should manpages be marked as %doc, or just other documentation? > > > > Files under /usr/share/{man,info} are automagically marked %doc by > > rpmbuild. > > Following the pattern long-established history and from the MIT krb5 > pacakge, I'm using a new directory (yes, I know I need to ask approval) > of /usr/heimdal, so I think that means I need to manually mark them as % > doc. Please follow the FHS rules and do not create new roots where the FHS says you should not. I certainly hope the krb packages get fixed someday but in the meanwhile that's no reason to repeat their mistakes