Re: [Fedora-packaging] %doc removal behavior
On 10/14/09 5:38 AM, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 05:01 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> The problem I'm running into is that in the course of packaging the docs
> for the main package, rpm does
>
> rm -rf %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}
>
> So, when it subsequently tries to package the docs for the -doc
> subpackage, the "manual" subdirectory (that was put there by "make
> install") has been blown away.
>
> What can I do here? Is it possible to suppress the "rm -rf" that %doc
> does?
Just use %doc to place the files in %{_docdir}, e.g.
%doc doc/*
The problem with that is that it does *not* put the files in %{_docdir}
when it is used for a subpackage. Instead, the files are put in
/usr/share/doc/subpackagename-%{version}. I don't want that.
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