[Fedora-packaging] Non standard locations for man pages

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Wed May 17 21:01:34 UTC 2006


In an effort to package up multiple MPI libraries (LAM-MPI, Open-MPI, 
and MPICH2), we're running into a number of issues with file conflicts. 
  The current strategy is to move many things into /usr/share/%{name}. 
However, man pages put in /usr/share/%{name}/man are not compressed.

Should I just file a bug against /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress (rpm-build) 
to add that pattern?  Current list is:

for d in ./usr/man/man* ./usr/man/*/man* ./usr/info \
         ./usr/share/man/man* ./usr/share/man/*/man* ./usr/share/info \
         ./usr/kerberos/man ./usr/X11R6/man/man* ./usr/lib/perl5/man/man* \
         ./usr/share/doc/*/man/man* ./usr/lib/*/man/man*

Or should the man pages go elsewhere?

Anything I should do in the meantime to compress the man pages manually 
if this is the right location until rpm-build is fixed?

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