[Fedora-packaging] %doc doesn't seem to use _defaultdocdir definition

[Daniel Letai]

Hi,
First off - apologies for long delay.

to clarify - I only ask about %doc macro.
I have created a minimal spec fie:

$ cat sample_rpm.spec
Name:        sample_rpm
Version:    1
Release:    1%{?dist}
Summary:    Sample rpm package

Group:        Development/Tools
License:    GPL
URL:        None
Source0:    sample_rpm.tar.xz
BuildRoot:    %(mktemp -ud %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-XXXXXX)

%description
Test package for '%doc'

global _defaultdocdir /opt/sample_rpm/share/doc

%prep
%setup -n sample_rpm

%install
rm -rf %{buildroot}
mkdir -p %{buildroot}/opt/sample_rpm/share/doc
#cp -R * %{buildroot}/opt/sample_rpm/share/doc

%clean
rm -rf %{buildroot}


%files
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%doc sample_file.txt

--------

which builds without issue, but the output of rpm -qpl is
$ rpm -qpl 
/home/rpmtester/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/sample_rpm-1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
/usr/share/doc/sample_rpm-1
/usr/share/doc/sample_rpm-1/sample_file.txt

and not /opt/....

BTW, the content of the tar file is the single .txt file.

So the question remains - how do I override %doc install location?

On 04/03/2015 01:05 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 11:21:47 +0300, Daniel Letai wrote:
>
>> Hi List,
>> I'm a newb at writing spec files, please bear with me.
>>
>> I'm rebuilding a package for RHEL 6, so if this is the wrong list,
>> please let me know.
>>
>> I have redefined the prefix stack:
>> %global _prefix         /opt/%{name}/%{version}
>> %global _exec_prefix    %{_prefix}
>> %global _bindir         %{_exec_prefix}/bin
>> %global _sbindir        %{_exec_prefix}/sbin
>> %global _libexecdir     %{_exec_prefix}/libexec
>> %global _sysconfdir     /etc
>> %global _sharedstatedir /var/lib
>> %global _localstatedir  /var
>> %global _libdir         %{_exec_prefix}/%{_lib}
>> %global _includedir     %{_prefix}/include
>> %global _datarootdir    %{_prefix}/share
>> %global _datadir        %{_datarootdir}
>> %global _infodir        %{_datarootdir}/info
>> %global _localedir      %{_datarootdir}/locale
>> %global _mandir         %{_datarootdir}/man
>> %global _docdir         %{_datarootdir}/doc
>> %global _htmldir        %{_docdir}
>> %global _dvidir         %{_docdir}
>> %global _pdfdir         %{_docdir}
>> %global _psdir          %{_docdir}
>> %global _defaultdocdir  %{_docdir}
>>
>> In configure:
>>           ../configure \
>>           --prefix=%{_prefix} \
>>           --exec-prefix=%{_exec_prefix} \
>>           --bindir=%{_bindir} \
>>           --sbindir=%{_sbindir} \
>>           --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir} \
>>           --datadir=%{_datadir} \
>>           --includedir=%{_includedir} \
>>           --libdir=%{_libdir} \
>>           --libexecdir=%{_libexecdir} \
>>           --localstatedir=%{_localstatedir} \
>>           --sharedstatedir=%{_sharedstatedir} \
>>           --mandir=%{_mandir} \
>>           --infodir=%{_infodir} \
>>           --docdir=%{_docdir} \
>>           ...
>>
>> In make install:
>> make DESTDIR=%{buildroot} \
>>           prefix=%{_prefix} \
>>           mandir=%{_mandir} \
>>           infodir=%{_infodir} \
>>           docdir=%{_docdir} \
>>           install
>>
>> The package completes without errors, resulting in RPMs, but In the
>> output I see multiple instances of:
>> + DOCDIR=~/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/<rpm top buildroot
>> dir>/usr/share/doc/%{name}-%{version}
>> + export DOCDIR
>>
>> and when installing the RPMs they install docs to /usr/share/doc.
>>
>> when building and installing manually all is well (share/doc under /opt/...)
>> What am I doing wrong?
> First, please clarify: The two steps you mention, the "configure" step
> and "make install", are completely unrelated to %doc. Do you refer to
> documentation files installed by "make install …" or to using the %doc
> macro to copy local files to the package's documentation directory?
> It should be a simple exercise to create a minimal spec file that
> includes a single %doc line in its %files section to experiment with
> redefined RPM macros (not limited to "rpmbuild -bb --define "_prefix /opt"
> test.spec).
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