Hi Folks:
Doing some RPM building, and ran into something I am not sure how to
handle. Some portion of these packages are man pages. In the %files
section, I have them all listed.
The binary build works to the point of packaging, where I start to get
complaints about missing man pages. Specifically that it cannot find
the files that exist in the tree named */man/man?/*.1 and related.
Looking in the tree, I found the man pages had been compressed, so the
%files entries would be technically incorrect without appending a .gz at
the end.
I tried to work around this by including a modified macro set in the
spec file itself:
#### fix the post install ...
%__os_install_post \
# /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress \
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip %{__strip} \
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-static-archive %{__strip} \
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-comment-note %{__strip} %{__objdump} \
%{nil}
after looking at what /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress does and seeing
that it is handling all of the man page compression. This did not work.
Any hints at what to do? Do I need to fix the spec file? Set an option
or two? I can provide the SPEC file, but don't want to spam the list
with it.
This is rpm-4.2-0.69 on RH9. Package is mpich-1.2.5.2.
Thanks.
Joe
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