Eric Belanger wrote:
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Allan McRae wrote:
Allan McRae wrote:
Hi all,
Just a heads up with something I have remembered while packaging
with the new pacman release. Including docs is the default in
makepkg.conf now so if there is a large amount of documentation you
will want to add a !docs to the PKGBUILD options. Also, every
package that needs the --mandir configure flag will probably need
and --infodir one too. An annoying number of packages with info
pages install a /usr/share/info/dir file so that will need removed
at the end of the PKGBUILD.
I have discovered that at least one package has to have a
/usr/share/info/dir file or the info command complains that it is
missing. It seems that ideally all packages with info directories
should add/remove entries in this file when installing/removing the
package, although calling "info <something not in dir file>" seems to
work, but I might be missing something.... The point is that adding
info files properly involves an install file with "install-info"
commands for each info page in the package. Isn't including docs fun!
Allan
The emacs package already does this. The emacs.install file could be
used as a template for this info stuff.
A template based in that is making its way into the prototypes found in
the ABS packages which I am going to make a release of soon.
CC: pacman-dev - We should also automatically compress the info files
like we do the man pages.
Allan
