On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 23:57 -0600, Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> 1) A development RPM that's just a copy of everything that's in the
> CVS tree for a document. I guess this would be the foo.src.rpm
> package. Installing this RPM would instantiate the files in
> /usr/src/redhat or ~/rpm, I guess.
An export of the CVS tree, yes.
> 2) A gnome help package with just the XML files, figures, callouts,
> and the like. I guess this would be a foo.noarch.rpm, similar to
> the RPM's your Makefile changes produce. Installing this RPM
> would populate the /usr/share/fedora/doc tree and drop some
> desktop files in place, too.
Sounds good.
> Generating this RPM would actually explode into separate
> foo.en.noarch.rpm or foo.zn_CH.noarch.rpm packages depending on
> the ${LANGUAGES} make(1) macro. Or should all translations stay
> in a single package with per-locale subdirs?
The latter. It doesn't matter if the SRPM ends up being hundreds of
megabytes as one shouldn't need it other than in exceptional
circumstances.
> 3) An RPM containing the formatted HTML/PDF content, suitable for
> browsing and printing. What could this be called? foo.i386.rpm?
> I don't know of a good (standard) place for these files to go at
> install time.
HTML and PDF are arch-independent so they would be noarch. And they
should go in the standard doc location, i.e., /usr/share/doc.
> I've thought about methods to generate the various RPM components,
> such as the .spec files. I found a neat program that lets a shell
> script extract arbitrary content from an XML document:
>
> http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/
>
> and have gotten it working on FC4. Built an RPM for it so we can add
> it to Fedora Extras if we decide to keep it.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-July/msg00591.html
The thread explains why it's not in yet. Summary: ambiguous command
name.
> Anyone have a clear enough understanding of what the RPM packaging
> should be that they can explain it to a total dunce like me? Perhaps
> you could take one of the more complete documents, such as the
> release notes, and show me the directory hierarchy produced by
> installing each of the RPM types I mentioned above. (Or whatever the
> correct complement of RPM's should be.)
If you can walk me through handling the stuff in CVS, possibly in
#fedora-docs, then I can take a look at it.
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