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Re: 1.5.19: update-info-dir.sh error
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:32:20 -0500
- Subject: Re: 1.5.19: update-info-dir.sh error
- References: <d15ae0610602191808l5cc6f74eq@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:08:20PM +1300, J.Chris Findlay wrote:
>Hi, I think this is the right place for this.
Actually, it's not. This isn't a bug-reporting mailing list.
>I noticed that every time /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh runs, it
>appends to the old dir info-entry, rather than replacing it. (This
>was happening every time I updated cygwin.)
>
>Upon further investigation I noticed that the above script does a "rm
>-f /usr/info/dir", but then writes it's output to
>"/usr/share/info/dir" instead.
>
>I believe this needs to be changed to "rm -f /usr/share/info/dir" to
>correct the problem.
If you read the description for "install-info", you'll see that only new
sections are supposed to be appended to /usr/share/info/dir. So,
really, the rm should not be required. In my version of
/usr/share/info/dir there are a couple of duplicates but they shouldn't
cause any harm and they definitely don't seem to be indicative of a dir
that is growing constantly.
I'll release a new version of this "package" but if your
/usr/share/info/dir file has a lot of duplication, you have a problem
which removing /usr/share/info/dir will only mask.
If your problem persists, please use the cygwin mailing list to report
it.
cgf