Displaying %doc and language specific files of an rpm

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Mon Dec 1 21:42:27 UTC 2008


On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Till Maas wrote:

> On Mon December 1 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 21:22 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
>>> It would be nice to get the output formated like this:
>>>
>>> /sbin/foo
>>> D /usr/share/man/man8/foo.8.gz
>>> D de /usr/share/man/de/man8/foo.8.gz
>>
>> This would be in addition to the existing rpm -qd ? (query for
>> documentation files)
>
> Yes, the rpm -qd does only show the documentation files and seems not to show,
> whether the files are specific for a certain language. E.g. it does not allow
> easily to spot files that should probably marked as %doc, but are not in
> package reviews. Btw. it also seems that directories that only
> contain %doc-files are not marked as %doc, e.g. /usr/share/doc/foo-1.23, is
> this intended?

Yes, the directories are not documentation, the contents are :)

 	- Panu -




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