diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8ddb7e2..485acc1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -33,3 +33,15 @@ providing it. Many of the spec files undoubtedly need work. Many undoubtedly have missing `BuildRequires` and other packaging mistakes. + + +Duplicate Documentation +----------------------- + +By default, LFS/BLFS does not compress man or info pages. By default, RPM uses +gzip compression on man and info pages. Thus when RPM bootstrapping an LFS +system, you will likely end up with two copies of each man and info page. + +The shell script [`remove_duplicates.sh`](remove_duplicates.sh) can be used to +remove the duplicates. Run it once a day or so during the RPM bootstrap process, +definitely after installing RPM packaged Perl for the first time.