[#721,!480] Documentation updated.

diff --git a/doc/sphinx/arm/install.rst b/doc/sphinx/arm/install.rst
index 6a5486e2fdbc6e2c99a658d7a6edee784e99b126..9660637912a5d5904291b2cd86f10fb411bb1053 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/sphinx/arm/install.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx/arm/install.rst
@@ -229,6 +229,15 @@ options. Some commonly used options are:
    Build the optional ``kea-shell`` tool (more in :ref:`kea-shell`).
    The default is to not build it.
 
+--with-site-packages
+   Only useful when ``kea-shell`` is enabled. It causes the kea-shell
+   python packages to be installed in specified directory. This is
+   mostly useful for Debian related distros. While most systems store
+   python packages in ${prefix}/usr/lib/pythonX/site-packages, Debian
+   introduced separate directory for packages installed from DEB. Such
+   python packages are expected to be installed in
+   /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages.
+
 --enable-perfdhcp
    Build the optional ``perfdhcp`` DHCP benchmarking tool. The default
    is to not build it.

diff --git a/doc/sphinx/arm/shell.rst b/doc/sphinx/arm/shell.rst
index 821bdc23d29a399776d61fc41f05e8c02335cc69..75ba6a543d0d440841da06b9c638c9793bacf505 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/sphinx/arm/shell.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx/arm/shell.rst
@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ tested with Python 2.7 and various versions of Python 3, up to 3.5.
 Since not every Kea deployment uses this feature and there are
 deployments that do not have Python, the Kea shell is not enabled by
 default. To use it, specify ``--enable-shell`` when running "configure"
-during the installation of Kea.
+during the installation of Kea. When building on Debian systems, also
+``--with-site-packages=...`` may be useful.
 
 The Kea shell is intended to serve more as a demonstration of the
 RESTful interface's capabilities (and, perhaps, an illustration for