Should packages be quiet when nodocs flag is used?
Manuel Wolfshant
wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Sun Dec 21 05:40:36 UTC 2008
On 12/21/2008 06:14 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> When we compose images for anaconda, we install a bunch of things into a
> chroot using the nodocs flag. MANY packages don't expect this and have
> noisy %post sections (more often than not involving trying to call
> install-info).
>
I've seen that too, I often install servers where there is no need for
docs, being them either man or info pages. no man*, no groff, no pinfo
> Should packages try to quiet this down or skip install-info if there is
> no info file?
>
packages should skip installing ALL the docs. info pages are doc.
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