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/
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