[Bug 1702] New: Review Request: imagination - A lightweight and simple GTK based DVD slide show creator

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:50:49 -0500, RS wrote:

> > Once you are certain that you can move the doc files without breaking
> > anything:
> >
> > 2.) Install them into a temporary location and make them available
> > somewhere below $(pwd), which is within the space of your extracted
> > package below %_builddir. Clean up and set up that temporary location
> > in %install. Then you can use %doc to include those doc files. E.g.
> >
> > %install
> > ...
> > rm -rf %(pwd)/_tmpdoc ; mkdir $(pwd)/_tmpdoc
> > mv %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name} $(pwd)/_tmpdoc
> >
> >
> > %files
> > ...
> > %doc _tmpdoc/*
> 
> I kinda see show this works, however, till the %doc move it to the
> right directory this way? I though if it had a path in it, rpm would
> just mark it as documentation but not move it?

As "_tmpdoc/*" is not an absolute path, %doc copies the file(s) from the
local build directory and additionally marks them as documentation. Just
like 

  %doc AUTHORS COPYING doc/html README

which also copies those files from the local build dir.

Techniques like this are in use for a long time, so it's not as if I'm
suggesting something that wouldn't work. ;)