[Fedora-packaging] Doc packaging questions

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try "rpm --showrc".

I did.  I'm 99% sure this is what I did when I tried to figure this
out for nodejs:

% rpm --showrc | grep doc
<snip>

Oh, there's a %{_docdir}!

% rpm -E '%{_docdir}'
%{_docdir}

Sad panda.  *Looks back at 'showrc' output.*  Hmm, there's a
%{_defaultdocdir} too...

% rpm -E '%{_defaultdocdir}'
/usr/share/doc

Yay!!!  Teh users can haz docs now!

I'm not aware of any other directory macro that works like this.  It's
obvious why macros like %{name} and %{summary} won't eval but there's
no reason why I would expect %{_docdir} not to.  (If it evaluated like
%{_pkgdocdir} is planned to that would be a different story...)

-T.C.