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[Michel Alexandre Salim]

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Hi Rob,

On 05/06/2012 07:52 AM, Rob Healey wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
> Could someone tell me which is more appropriate to do?  place
> project manual files in: 1) usr/share/man/lang/man1/gramps.1.gz,
> or 2) /usr/local/share/man/man1/gramps.1
> 
> Which format is also better *.gz or *.1 ???

The man directory should depend on the installation prefix (e.g.
system-packaged applications are compiled and installed with
- --prefix=/usr, so their manpages are in /usr/share/man/man*/... --
while the default prefix is normally /usr/local because user-installed
applications, by convention, are installed there).

The .1 is just because it's a section 1 manpage. If your manpage is
for section 2, it'd be in man2/foo.2 . RPM automatically compresses
the manpages using gzip when building a binary RPM, thus the .gz --
you don't need (and shouldn't) do that on your own.

Hope that helps,

- -- 
Michel Alexandre Salim
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