Re: [rpm] Re: problem with rpm...

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:46:19PM -0400, herrold wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Peter Blomgren wrote:
> 
> > > Processing files: eject-2.0.2-3
> > > File not found: /var/tmp/eject-buildroot/usr/man/man1/eject.1
> > [snip]
> > 
> > That's it.  One missing file is enough not to get any packages!
> > Update your %files section, or figure out where the man-page went...
> 
> This is a manifestation of the new compressed man pages _default_,
> which default is newly present.  In the SPECfile enumeration of
> %files, adding the .gz suffix to those man pages listed will
> usually resolve this issue.
> 

Better yet, if you do
	%{_mandir}/man*/foo*
you will be unaffected by
	1) /usr/man vs. /usr/share/man FHS churn.
	2) gzip vs. bzip2 vs. uncompressed man page policies.

That's the plan anyway, we'll see what actually happens.

73 de Jeff

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