On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 07:42:15PM +0800, Ian C.Sison wrote:
> Because (correct me if i am wrong), the newest RPM has macros that all point to
> new locations for /usr/doc, /usr/man, /usr/info to somewhere in /usr/share.
Well, if you want the newest stuff, and want no hassle, you very much have
to upgrade your other packages like man, info and maybe gettext (?). When
you'd upgrade these packages, you would be able to use the new locations
*PLUS* the old locations. Where's the problem?
> You don't want this new version of RPM screwing with the old setup by pointing
> the docs of new packages to /usr/share/{man|doc|info}, as it will be
> inconsistent with the rest of your (older) distro.
It doesn't screw with the old setup. Just because newer man pages are
installed in /usr/share/man/* doesn't mean that the old man pages cannot be
found anymore. And over the time there will be no old packages that put
stuff in /usr/man, so sooner or later you will have to upgrade. Better
sooner than later if you ask me.
> What i think is needed is some sort of upgrade SPECfile which contains
> no new binary of RPM but simply installs the macros, and points the
> /usr/{man/doc/info} where they should be.
They should be in /usr/share/{man,doc,info} according to FHS 2.1. But I
still don't understand what you want. Do you want an rpm that just includes
/usr/lib/rpm/macros? What do you think that would do? It would just help
you when you rebuild an src.rpm, binary rpms are totally unaffected by the
(non-)existance of /usr/lib/rpm/macros.
PS: If I talk rubbish, someone please correct me. Thx.
Alexander Skwar
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