Creating .spec files

James Richardson <[email protected]> Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:12:31 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.packaging
Organization teknofile.com && teknofile.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm in the process of putting together some spec files for some gnome 
apps, but i'm curious on how to handle the scrollkeeper documentation.

I'm definining %{localstatedir}  to /var/lib per the "GNOME RPM spec 
file packaging guidelines" [ 
http://www.fedora.us/docs/rpm-packaging-guidelines.html ]. Also making 
sure to use their %install method and %build methods [as i've read on 
some mailing lists that the scripts aren't really portable or just doing 
a make DESTDIR=blah install dosen't garuntee it'll get get installed in 
the right place....

The gnome packages that do include scrollkeeper docs/omf fles install 
files into /var/lib/scrollkeeper/<lang>/<xmlfile>. Why is this? When you 
go to install another package, those files are "owned" by a previous 
package that installed those.

Is there a ./configure flag i'm missing to not install those?

James