Re: .dev.YYYY.mmdd hardcoded docdir?

It seems as Fedora distros specify "configure" --docdir as
"/usr/share/doc" (without package name) - as You say,
it point to "main root".
Then they puts package docs into %{packagename}-%{version}/
subdirectory - but it is distro own policy (moreover, Fedora
from release 20 did "Unversioned Docdirs" and packages docs
are in "/usr/share/doc/%{packagename}" (without version).
This convention was backported also to Fedora 18 and 19.

Franta Hanzlik

Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> Confirmed, at
> https://gitorious.org/freetds/freetds/source/8780c1f243abef142756bb9caf0062196d48b9d7:doc/Makefile.am#L9-17
> TARGET_DOCDIR uses $(datadir) (which is usually /usr/share) so the problem.
> 
> I'm not sure however about --docdir. Should it point to main root (like
> /usr/share/doc) or specific to project?
> 
> I think you are referring to configure option, in configure I have
> 
> docdir='${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE_TARNAME}'
> 
> I think we don't use this as we want to embed the version to this directory
> however looking at my /usr/share/doc directory there is no versions but
> only package name so perhaps the target we use is not right.
> 
> Our spec file say
> 
> The freetds-doc package contains the useguide and reference of FreeTDS
> and can be installed even if FreeTDS main package is not installed
> 
> But this does not say we should be able to install different versions
> 
> Frediano
> 
> 
> 2014-07-05 11:46 GMT+02:00 Frantisek Hanzlik <[email protected]>:
> 
>> A few days ago I wrote here about problems with bsqldb and fisql;
>> now I tried build last git2a830b1 version (because my Fedora 19 has
>> older version 0.91-gitf3ae29d (0a42888 ?) sometimes from November
>> 2013, and I was hoping that new version will be working better).
>> But I have problem with making FreeTDS RPM package - it seems that
>> new git version ignore "--docdir" configure option and always install
>> doc into albeit right "/usr/share/doc/" directory, however here into
>> "freetds-0.92.dev.YYYYmmdd" (where YYYYmmdd is actual date) - though
>> I was specifying "--docdir=/usr/share/doc/freetds-0.92".
>>
>> It is intended, or I'm doing some mistake? IMO docdir (or other
>> package directories) should not depend on current date, but rather
>> on version ev. git subversion only }and should be configurable).
>>
>> Thanks, Franta Hanzlik