[Fedora-packaging] How to create a subdir in %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 19:26 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to create an "examples" folder inside
> %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}. Here is my test case:
> 
> > %install
> > mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}/examples/
> > touch $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}/examples/test
> > 
> > %files -f %{name}.lang
> > %defattr(-,root,root,-)
> > %doc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog README
> > %doc %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}/examples/
> 
> This wont work as the first %doc line deletes and re-creates
> %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}, so rpmbuild will fail with:
> "... /usr/share/doc/foo/examples/test: cpio: Bad magic"
> 
> Any idea how I can have a subdir then?
> Christoph

Simple: don't install examples/ in %docdir manually, instead include it
in the %files section of %doc.

Example: tarball contents is

foo-0.1.0/
foo-0.1.0/foo.c
foo-0.1.0/COPYING
foo-0.1.0/examples/
foo-0.1.0/examples/run.me

then your %doc section reads:
%doc COPYING examples/
-- 
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org