Bug 21729

Summary:	build policy for noarch doesn't compress man pages.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Sam Varshavchik <mrsam>
Component:	rpm-build	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.0	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Sam Varshavchik 2000-12-05 04:36:53 UTC

How about creating /usr/lib/rpm/noarch/macros that consists only of:

%__spec_install_post   /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress

I just put some Perl scripts and their man pages into a noarch RPM, and
discovered that the man pages did not compress because there was no
post-install script at all, for noarch builds.

It may not make any sense to run brp-strip for noarch, but at least running
brp-compress may do some good.

Comment 1 Sam Varshavchik 2000-12-08 02:18:26 UTC

Interesting.  If I specify --target=noarch, the brp scripts do NOT get run.

But, if instead I add "BuildArch: noarch" to the spec file, the brp scripts DO
run.

That doesn't make sense to me.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-02-21 19:09:57 UTC

Changing component

Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2001-07-25 21:11:02 UTC

Fixed by crating noarch-linux and noarch-redhat-linux symlinks
to the canonical arch per-platform configuration directory.