IMO it will be good perform some spec files cleanups. Patch with this cleanups is relative large and it touches many spec files (it will be hard submiting this using bugzilla) but all can be changed using single sed line: [devel]$ sed -i '/^%doc$/d; /^%doc $/d; \ s/^%doc %{_mandir}/%{_mandir}/; \ s/\(^%{_mandir}\/.*\)\(\.gz$\)/\1\*/' \ */*spec Above: - removes empty %doc lines, - removes %doc from %{_mandir}/* %files entries (all %{_mandir} entries are marked by default as %doc), - replace .gz suffix by * from %{_mandir}/* entries This allow choose on build stage generate binary packages with or without gzipped man pages. kloczek -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list