Test of Docs Packaging

James Laska jlaska at redhat.com
Fri Oct 14 17:48:55 UTC 2005


/me watches as imap comes back to life ;(

My apologies for the spam,
James Laska

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 12:49 -0400, James Laska wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 09:27 -0500, Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> > 2.  The "noarch" RPM's actually contain the source; that's more a
> >    "src.rpm" or "-devel.noarch.rpm" to me.  Don't we need room in the
> >    namespace for a PDF / HTML flavor of the RPM?  Perhaps
> >    "foo-html.noarch.rpm"?
> 
> Any objections to having the rpm contain all flavors?  Seems like less
> hassle with that approach.  But we could benefit from standardizing on
> the location of how those files get dropped onto the system.
> 
> How about the following:
> 
> /usr/share/fedora/doc/$docbase/$lang/$docbase-$lang/     # chunked html
> /usr/share/fedora/doc/$docbase/$lang/$docbase-$lang.html # nochunk html
> /usr/share/fedora/doc/$docbase/$lang/$docbase-$lang.pdf  # pdf
> /usr/share/fedora/doc/$docbase/$lang/$docbase-$lang.txt  # plain txt
> /usr/share/fedora/doc/$docbase/$lang/$docbase-$lang.omf  (perhaps a
> symlink from /usr/share/omf or vice-versa)
> 
> Thanks,
> James Laska
> 
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>  Quality Engineering -- Red Hat, Inc.
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