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+SOURCES/man-pages-overrides-8.0.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/.man-pages-overrides.metadata b/.man-pages-overrides.metadata
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+ebcf8bd71d3498cf19fce2218217ae18d2198ef8 SOURCES/man-pages-overrides-8.0.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/SPECS/man-pages-overrides.spec b/SPECS/man-pages-overrides.spec
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+%global debug_package   %{nil}
+
+Summary: Complementary and updated manual pages
+Name: man-pages-overrides
+Version: 8.0.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
+# license is the same as for the man-pages package
+License: GPL+ and GPLv2+ and BSD and MIT and Copyright only and IEEE
+Group: Documentation
+# there is no public download location for this package
+Source: man-pages-overrides-%{version}.tar.xz
+
+BuildArch: noarch
+
+%description
+A collection of manual ("man") pages to complement other packages or update
+those contained therein. Always have the latest version of this package
+installed.
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -p1
+# remove unwanted *.orig files
+find -name "*.orig" -delete
+
+%build
+# nothing to build
+
+%install
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/overrides
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}
+for i in *; do
+    if [[ -d "$i" ]]; then
+        for j in $(ls "$i"); do
+           if [[ -d "$i/$j" ]]; then
+               mkdir -p "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/overrides/$j"
+               for k in $(ls "$i/$j"); do
+                   if [[ -d "$i/$j/$k" ]]; then
+                       mkdir -p "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/overrides/$j/$k"
+                       cp -f "$i/$j/$k"/* "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/overrides/$j/$k"
+                   else
+                       cp -f "$i/$j"/* "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/overrides/$j"
+                   fi
+               done
+           else
+              mkdir -p "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}/$i"
+              cp "$i/$j" "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}/$i"
+           fi
+        done
+    fi
+done
+
+%files
+%doc %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}
+%{_mandir}/overrides/
+
+%changelog
+* Thu Jul 26 2018 Nikola Forró <nforro@redhat.com> - 8.0.0-1
+- Initial package for RHEL 8.0