udev-config documentation

[Bruce Dubbs]

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