Michael Schwendt wrote, at 02/28/2009 06:43 PM +9:00:
The scenario:
- tarball "make install" installs lots of documentation files in
%_defaultdocdir/%name-%version/
- package %files list uses %doc attributes to place its own
selection of files in our default docdir
=> all doc files from "make install" are lost, because
%doc fills %_defaultdocdir/%name-%version/ from scratch
In all earlier cases where applicable, I could convince the packager
to not use %doc and instead create proper %files entries to include
the files found in %_defaultdocdir/%name-%version/ -- as a bonus,
rpmbuild would fail for any file not included in %files.
For the first time, a packager insists on overwriting/killing the
installed files with his own conflicting %doc attributes.
Conclusion: It works but bears risks. It would silently kill any
additional documentation files built and installed by an upgrade, but not
added by the packager manually via %doc. It could also be that the %doc
statements create different subdirs (e.g. ./html/ versus placing the
html files directory in the pkg's docdir root) which might conflict
with paths compiled into an application.
What do other people think about this?
I have already seen that many packagers (including myself) once
remove all installed document files and add them again
using %doc, and I have seen no problem for this method.
Mamoru
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