Non standard locations for man pages

[Orion Poplawski]

In an effort to package up multiple MPI libraries (LAM-MPI, Open-MPI, 
and MPICH2), we're running into a number of issues with file conflicts. 
  The current strategy is to move many things into /usr/share/%{name}. 
However, man pages put in /usr/share/%{name}/man are not compressed.

Should I just file a bug against /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress (rpm-build) 
to add that pattern?  Current list is:

for d in ./usr/man/man* ./usr/man/*/man* ./usr/info \
         ./usr/share/man/man* ./usr/share/man/*/man* ./usr/share/info \
         ./usr/kerberos/man ./usr/X11R6/man/man* ./usr/lib/perl5/man/man* \
         ./usr/share/doc/*/man/man* ./usr/lib/*/man/man*

Or should the man pages go elsewhere?

Anything I should do in the meantime to compress the man pages manually 
if this is the right location until rpm-build is fixed?

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[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:01:34PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>  In an effort to package up multiple MPI libraries (LAM-MPI, Open-MPI,
>
>  and MPICH2), we're running into a number of issues with file conflicts. 
>   The current strategy is to move many things into /usr/share/%{name}. 
>  However, man pages put in /usr/share/%{name}/man are not compressed. 
What about /usr/share/doc/*/man/man* (from the list below)?

>  Should I just file a bug against /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
> (rpm-build) 
>  to add that pattern?  Current list is:
>  
>  for d in ./usr/man/man* ./usr/man/*/man* ./usr/info \
>          ./usr/share/man/man* ./usr/share/man/*/man* ./usr/share/info \
>          ./usr/kerberos/man ./usr/X11R6/man/man* ./usr/lib/perl5/man/man* \
>          ./usr/share/doc/*/man/man* ./usr/lib/*/man/man*
>  
>  Or should the man pages go elsewhere?
>  
>  Anything I should do in the meantime to compress the man pages manually 
>  if this is the right location until rpm-build is fixed?
>   
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[Tom Callaway]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 15:01 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>  In an effort to package up multiple MPI libraries (LAM-MPI, Open-MPI,
>
>  and MPICH2), we're running into a number of issues with file conflicts. 
>    The current strategy is to move many things into /usr/share/%{name}. 
>  However, man pages put in /usr/share/%{name}/man are not compressed.
>  
>  Should I just file a bug against /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress (rpm-build) 
>  to add that pattern?  Current list is:
>  
>  for d in ./usr/man/man* ./usr/man/*/man* ./usr/info \
>           ./usr/share/man/man* ./usr/share/man/*/man* ./usr/share/info \
>           ./usr/kerberos/man ./usr/X11R6/man/man* ./usr/lib/perl5/man/man* \
>           ./usr/share/doc/*/man/man* ./usr/lib/*/man/man*
>  
>  Or should the man pages go elsewhere?
>  
>  Anything I should do in the meantime to compress the man pages manually 
>  if this is the right location until rpm-build is fixed? 
Well, keep in mind that man won't look in /usr/share/*/man as configured
in the fedora man package. (Look in /etc/man.config for confirmation of
this). This will need to be fixed at the same time
as /usr/lib/rpm/bmp-compress.

It also won't look in /usr/share/doc/*/man (but rpm is configured for
it). I don't care which one we use, but either one will require changes
to the man package configuration.

~spot
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