Thanks a lot Rick for your assistance
Actually, I figured out the solution few hours after I sent this message.
There was a statement excludedocs=yes (or something similar) in
/etc/rpm/macros. Indeed, /etc/rpm/rpmrc is not used with Mandriva, but
/etc/rpm/macros is used instead probably with same functionality (an naybe
even same syntax) as /etc/rpm/rpmrc in a "standard" configuration. Why
"excludedoc=yes" happened to be there ? Probably because my file system
started as a copy of MandrivaOne, and later I upgraded it by installing many
extra packages. For MandrivaOne excludedocs=yes makes sense, because the
whole installation should fit a single CD.
Now I have to reinstall quite a few packages to get the documentation,
because it looks like Mandriva installer doesn't keep original RPM-s. BTW
what is the installer's name, I would like to call it without Gnome menu.
And probably a straightforward question? Which package contains man pages
for glibc (I mean standard C functions like fork, spawn, malloc, etc).
libc-devel has include files but not man pages.
And one more question. Is there a way to read docbook files without KDE,
konquerror, or converting them into pdf ? All above mentioned have a lot of
dependencies, while I prefer something simple for gnome to read docbook
files.
Cheers
Michael
On 29/12/06, RickS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
RickS ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[...]
> But you should be able to tell if this is set by typing:
> $ rpm -qa |grep "excludedocs"
that should be
$ rpm --showrc |grep "excludedocs"
=)
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~RickS
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