On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 06:32 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 17:25 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 23:17 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm reviewing a package where the license file is under %{_datadir}
>>> beacuse the gtk GUI needs to display it. Moving it to %doc is bad as
>>> the application would be dependent on %doc content. But not having it
>>> in %doc is bad, too, as this is the canonical place someone will query
>>> the license text.
>>>
>>> IMHO in this case it should be doubled. Do you agree?
>> I don't see a problem with duplicating it but is there any problem with
>> a symlink from %_datadir to the docdir?
> Yes,
>
> - they could be on different partitions, so symlinks might not be
> available.
Why not?
Because I mixed up hard and soft links ;) Sorry.
> - A file under %{_datadir]/<somewhere> is application
data, not rpm
> %doc'umentation. Though the files might be identical, they are
> completely different beasts.
So?
Data is "used by" relation.
Documentation is a "has a" relation.
> - rpm --excludedocs (i.e. if symlinking, then the physical copy
must be
> in %{_datadir} and the symlink in %docdir.
As long as both are marked %doc, there shouldn't be a problem.
If
%{_datadir}/<something>/COPYING is used by a package, it's data, not
documentation. %doc'ing it would be a fault.
Ralf