packaging, directory ownership, %files

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> Carl Byington wrote:
>> I want a spec file with something like:
>>
>> %files devel-doc
>> %defattr(-,root,root,-)
>> %{_datadir}/doc/%{name}-%{version}/devel/
>>
>> %files doc
>> %defattr(-,root,root,-)
>> %{_datadir}/doc/%{name}-%{version}/
>>
>>
>>
>> Where
>> doc/%{name}-%{version} contains end user documentation, and
>> doc/%{name}-%{version}/devel contains developer documentation, mainly
>> doxygen generated html.
>>
>> However, that seems to put the developer documentation into the -doc
>> subpackage in addition to the -devel-doc subpackage. Is there a way to
>> do this so that we have a single doc/%{name}-%{version} directory owned
>> by the -doc subpackage, and it contains doc/%{name}-%{version}/devel
>> owned by the -devel-doc subpackage (which of course depends on the -doc
>> subpackage)?
>>
>
> Two choices:
>
> 1) Don't install the user documentation in %install.  Then have this
> files entry:
>
> %files doc
> %doc userdocs/*
>
> 2) Use %exclude:
>
> %files doc
> %{_defaultdocdir}/%{name}-%{version}/
> %exclude %{_defaultdocdir}/%{name}-%{version}/devel/
>
> %exclude throws off rpm's size calculation so it's not the preferred
> method, but it can be easier to implement.

FWIW, this has been fixed since rpm 4.6.0, excludes and duplicate entries 
no longer screw up the size calculation.

 	- Panu -