[Fedora-packaging] Re: Non standard locations for man pages

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:01:34PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> In an effort to package up multiple MPI libraries (LAM-MPI, Open-MPI, 
> and MPICH2), we're running into a number of issues with file conflicts. 
>  The current strategy is to move many things into /usr/share/%{name}. 
> However, man pages put in /usr/share/%{name}/man are not compressed.

What about /usr/share/doc/*/man/man* (from the list below)?

> Should I just file a bug against /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress (rpm-build) 
> to add that pattern?  Current list is:
> 
> for d in ./usr/man/man* ./usr/man/*/man* ./usr/info \
>         ./usr/share/man/man* ./usr/share/man/*/man* ./usr/share/info \
>         ./usr/kerberos/man ./usr/X11R6/man/man* ./usr/lib/perl5/man/man* \
>         ./usr/share/doc/*/man/man* ./usr/lib/*/man/man*
> 
> Or should the man pages go elsewhere?
> 
> Anything I should do in the meantime to compress the man pages manually 
> if this is the right location until rpm-build is fixed?
> 

-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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