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On Dec 8 09:07, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/7/2014 6:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Dec 7 11:45, Achim Gratz wrote: > >>Corinna Vinschen writes: > >>>The _update-info-dir script just collects all info files from /usr/info > >>>and /usr/share/info and creates new "dir" using install-info. I was > >>>hoping that the method from _{inc}autorebase could be simply adapted to > >>>include .info files instead of .dll, .so and .oct files. > >> > >>The .info suffix may not be universally used as it is not required. The > >>check shouldn't be much more complicated (I'd extract for the info path > >>instead of the suffix), > > > >Yeah, the filename rules are a bit weird. Info files may be split into > >foo, foo-1, foo-2 and so on, and only the non-suffixed of them should be > >fed to install-info. Plus, taking the compression suffix into account, > >plus, there may be non-info files in the info dirs as well, see > >/usr/share/info/libidn-components.png. Update-info-dir.sh ignores the > >latter, but the --quite option suppresses any errors. > > I'm not convinced that we need to worry so much about all these details. > What if we just check (based on timestamps of files in /etc/setup/*.lst.gz) > whether anything has been installed into /usr/info or /usr/share/info since > we last did this check. If so, then just do exactly what the current > update-info-dir.sh does. Fine with me. Except that we should probably get rid of /usr/info. As far as we can trust the package search, there's no package installing into /usr/info. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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