[Fedora-packaging] %doc removal behavior

[Braden McDaniel]

On 10/14/09 5:38 AM, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 05:01 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
>> The problem I'm running into is that in the course of packaging the docs
>> for the main package, rpm does
>>
>>          rm -rf %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}
>>
>> So, when it subsequently tries to package the docs for the -doc
>> subpackage, the "manual" subdirectory (that was put there by "make
>> install") has been blown away.
>>
>> What can I do here? Is it possible to suppress the "rm -rf" that %doc
>> does?
>
> Just use %doc to place the files in %{_docdir}, e.g.
>   %doc doc/*

The problem with that is that it does *not* put the files in %{_docdir} 
when it is used for a subpackage.  Instead, the files are put in 
/usr/share/doc/subpackagename-%{version}.  I don't want that.

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