[Mageia-dev] Ownership of /usr/share/man/XX, %find_lang --with-man

Sat Jul 16 03:40:21 CEST 2011

Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> I used the --with-man option of the %find_lang RPM macro, but noticed that it
+> adds all /usr/share/man/XX and /usr/share/man/XX/manX directories to the
+> package, which, it seems, is bad.
+>
+> Spturtle noticed that for example /usr/share/man/sr belongs to no other
+> package and prefers that it belongs to too much packages than to no package at
+> all.
+>
+> I looked at what fedora does, and it looks like they added all those
+> translated manpages dirs to the filesystem package ( see
+> http://sophie.zarb.org/explorer/usr/share/man/sr and select fedora )
+> It would solve the problem at hand and we could start cleaning wrong
+> ownerships, such as those :
+> http://sophie.zarb.org/explorer/usr/share/man/fr (select mageia)
+>
+> What do you think ?
+>
+> Samuel
+
+Just saw your post, and reflected a bit.
+/usr/share/man/man* belongs to filesystem (of course)
+On my system, most /usr/share/man/{lang}/man1/ belong to the same 2 packages 
+(or just one of them).
+fr belongs to one more.
+sv to none.
+So most packages don't take ownership of /usr/share/man/{lang}/man*.
+And some do, even after the directory already exists.
+
+Having no owner seems fine to me, and belonging to the filesystem package seems 
+the only reasonable alternative.
+Whatever everyone prefers, and is doable.
+
+Maybe we should use the buildsystem to enforce the chosen option ?
+Or just add it to rpmlint-mageia-policy ?
+
+(I'm curious as to what controls this.)
+-- 
+André
+