[Rust-users] Re: Problem, apparently, in generating RPMs with man

[Ben P. <be...@re...>]

* P@ <pa...@ps...> [011015 11:51]:                                      
> >                                                                             
> > i.e.:                                                                       
> >                                                                             
> >     File not found:                                                         
> > /home/benp/rust/var/tmp/util-linux/usr/share/man/man1/write.1               
> >     File not found:                                                         
/home/benp/rust/var/tmp/util-linux/usr/share/man/man5/nfs.5                     
> >     File not found:                                                         
> > /home/benp/rust/var/tmp/util-linux/usr/share/man/man5/fstab.5               
> > Is this a known problem?                                                    
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> Yeah, I've seen this before.  The problem is that rpm is automagically        
> compressing these files (eg turning fstab.5 into fstab.5.gz) - after          
generating                                                                      
> the list of files to include in the RPM.  I can think of 2 solutions:         
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> 1) manually gzip the files before creating the RPM (this will not inhibit them
> from being used as man pages), with something like                            
>       gzip -9 /home/benp/rust/var/tmp/util-linux/usr/share/man/*/*            
>                                                                               
> 2) Find a way to stop rpm compressing the files when creating the RPM. You can
> try this:                                                                     
> As root, edit /usr/local/rust/makeRPM.sh go to line 148 and find:             
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>       echo "%_topdir $TOPDIR" > $RPMMACROS                                    
>       echo "%buildroot %{_topdir}/var/tmp/$PACKNAME" >> $RPMMACROS            
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> Add the line line:                                                            
>       echo "%__os_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip" >> $RPMMACROS          
                                                                                
Option number two seems to work like a charm!  Thanks for your help (and        
again for these great tools!                                                    
                                                                                
Ben