Re: [Bug 1702] New: Review Request: imagination - A lightweight and simple GTK based DVD slide show creator
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:33:16 -0500, RS wrote:
[...] but as much documentation as there
is, it all seems to be lacking in certain areas. You have to do a lot
of reading between the lines. I'm really trying to understand how
rpmbuild works but it can be quite convoluted.
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-inside-files-list-directives.html
So if I understand your example, we're going to move the files
out of
BUILDROOT back to BUILD which will prevent us from getting the FILES
INSTALLED BUT NOT PACKAGED or whatever the error is.
Well, that's not the goal of it. But in the same way as one is free
to "mess with files inside buildroot", one is not limited to deleting
or renaming files in there. One can do arbitrary things in there.
Whatever may be necessary to create a working package.
In general, if the files installed in the buildroot need to be adjusted
somehow, it's up to you to fix them for your %files list. Available
techniques, such as a tmp dir, are not specific to %doc files.
Then, while
%files is for referencing files in BUILDROOT, %doc will actually copy
files from BUILD. The only thing I can think of to add is that the doc
files are installed in %{_docdir}/%{name}/html. Wouldn't we want to
preserve the ./html directory?
Nothing is stopping you from modifying the %doc statements appropriately
to include a 'html' directory.