Re: How to handle documentation and move it in the right place.

[Hans Deragon]

SOLVED!  address@hidden@.  I was in the impression that one could list all the doc files 
 one on each line after a %doc statement in the spec file.  This is not the 
case.  They have to be listed on the same line.  It does not look clean when you 
have a lot of doc, but it works.


My bad.
Hans Deragon
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Hans Deragon wrote:
> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Hans Deragon wrote:
> >
> >
> > >   I am trying to jugle with automake and rpmbuild to get an RPM built 
> > > with the
> > > documentation in the proper place.  I tried many things, but I never 
> > > succeded to
> > > get my documentation installed where I want.  When the documentation is
> > > installed in the right place using "make install", rpmbuild can't get 
> > > the
> > > documentation or complains.
> >
> >
> >
> > The most common procedure for building RPMs appears to be to do
> >
> >   make DESTDIR=/somewhere install
> >
> > and then reference the installed files in /somewhere in the RPM spec
> > file.  This way the normal Automake install target is used and you
> > don't need to worry about anything but 'install' in your Makefile.am
> > files.
> >
> > Bob
> > ======================================
> > Bob Friesenhahn
> > address@hidden
> > http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
>
>
> Greetings.
>
> I do not understand how "make DESTDIR=/somewhere install" would help.  
> In a way, I am already doing it.
>
> Here is a partial listing of %buildroot:
>
> [... deleted lines ...]
> .../usr/share/apt-build/doc/apt-build.html
> .../usr/share/apt-build/doc/apt-build.pdf
> .../usr/share/apt-build/doc/apt-build.ps
> .../usr/share/apt-build/doc/apt-build.txt
> .../usr/share/doc/apt-build-1.0.0/doc/apt-build.ps
> .../usr/share/doc/apt-build-1.0.0/doc/apt-build.txt
> .../usr/share/doc/apt-build-1.0.0/doc/apt-build.html
> .../usr/share/doc/apt-build-1.0.0/doc/apt-build.pdf
> [... deleted lines ...]
>
> As you see, my document files are duplicated in the build directory.  
> When rpmbuild calls my tarball's source with "make install", the 
> documents are copied under:
>
> .../usr/share/apt-build/doc/
>
> Now when rpmbuild reads the "%doc doc" statement, it copies from the 
> tarball the documents to:
>
> .../usr/share/doc/apt-build-1.0.0/doc/
>
> This directory is the right place where they should be.  However, 
> because they files under .../usr/share/apt-build/doc/ are not listed in 
> %files, rpmbuild complains "error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) 
> found:" and my rpm is not built.
>
> How can I avoid .../usr/share/apt-build/doc/ to be created in the first 
> place, when it is the normal spot for my documents when "make install" 
> is called?
>
> In other words, I want the documents be at different places when they 
> are part of a tarball or an rpm, but this causes problem because from 
> what I understand, rpmbuild needs them to be in the same place.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Hans Deragon
> --
> Consultant en informatique/Software Consultant
> Deragon Informatique inc.     Open source:
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