Bug 21729 - build policy for noarch doesn't compress man pages.
Summary: build policy for noarch doesn't compress man pages.
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm-build
Version: 7.0
Hardware: noarch
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Keywords: FutureFeature
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-12-05 04:36 UTC by Sam Varshavchik
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-21 19:10:04 UTC

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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.
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