[Mageia-dev] Ownership of /usr/share/man/XX, %find_lang --with-man

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Sat Jul 16 12:24:25 CEST 2011


Le samedi 09 juillet 2011 à 14:46 +0200, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> I used the --with-man option of the %find_lang RPM macro, but noticed that it 
> adds all /usr/share/man/XX and /usr/share/man/XX/manX directories to the 
> package, which, it seems, is bad.
> 
> Spturtle noticed that for example /usr/share/man/sr belongs to no other 
> package and prefers that it belongs to too much packages than to no package at 
> all.
> 
> I looked at what fedora does, and it looks like they added all those 
> translated manpages dirs to the filesystem package ( see 
> http://sophie.zarb.org/explorer/usr/share/man/sr and select fedora ) 
> It would solve the problem at hand and we could start cleaning wrong 
> ownerships, such as those : 
> http://sophie.zarb.org/explorer/usr/share/man/fr (select mageia)

Filesystem sound the logical place to put everything.
The real problem is to find the canonical list of supported languages.



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Michael Scherer



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