On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Tomas Radej <tradej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible for man pages to use the %doc macro in the %files section in a spec file? In Guidelines, there's no explicit mention of it, and I haven't found a package having this behavior. However, I am reviewing spacewalk-pylint ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800899 ), which does this: > > %files > %doc %{_mandir}/man8/spacewalk-pylint.8* > > Can you please give me a stance on that? It seems more logical to list the man page in the regular %files section, and leave doc for things like html, COPYING, README, etc. Though I've never tried the above, I'm not sure whether it would put the man page in /usr/share/doc/foo-version/, breaking man's ability to find it, or put it in the man dir, and allow it to be left out if --nodocs is passed. Probably the latter, but I'd still keep it out of %doc. The only reason people would use --nodocs is to save space, and man pages are trivially small. -J > Thank you, > > -- > Tomas Radej <tradej@xxxxxxxxxx> > -- > packaging mailing list > packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging -- http://cecinestpasunefromage.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------ in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love -d. bowie -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
