Bryan Kadzban wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> I was just reviewing the files installed bu LFS-6/5 and notice that the
>> udev-config documentation is installed in /usr/share/doc/udev-config.
>>
>> Shouldn't that be /usr/share/doc/udev-config-20090523?
>
> Only if you avoid the autofoo standard by putting the version in the
> directory name. ;-)
>
> autoconf sets the default docdir to ${datarootdir}/doc/${PKG_TARNAME}
> (or is it ${PACKAGE_TARNAME}? Either way.) The "tarname" is without
> the version appended.
>
> Some packages override this, of course... :-/
>
>> We could change the install instruction in the book to:
>>
>> export DOC_DIR=/usr/share/doc/&udev-config;
>> make -e install-doc
>> make -e install-extra-doc
>> unset DOC_DIR
>>
>> or similar.
>
> Or:
>
> make install-doc DOC_DIR=/....
> make install-extra-doc DOC_DIR=/....
>
> so that other random shell variables don't interfere.
>
>> The above avoids any change to the udev-config tarball. Other
>> options would be to change the Makefile in that tarball.
>>
>> Is this worth the effort?
>
> Hmm.
>
> It used to dump these into /usr/share/doc/udev-<version>. Now that udev
> uses autofoo and /usr/share/doc/udev, maybe we should dump these docs
> there instead.
>
> Or not bother... they're rather old docs nowadays anyway. They need a
> bit of a cleanup. :-(
Bryan,
I'm talking about udev-config (an LFS created tarball) not the udev package
from upstream. No autofoo, just vim.
-- Bruce
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