Re: [Fedora-packaging] Unclear in the use of %doc

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:18 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>  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 
No worries, I'll move them.  (The MIT krb5 package's use of a non-FHS
prefix allows me to avoid conflicts ;-)

Andrew Bartlett
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