_update-info-dir (was Re: [RFC] GCC-4 new packaging.)

[Dave Korn]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:47:29PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>>  ?? But doesn't that mean the info directory page would only get updated
>> every time there's a new release of texinfo?  I'm really confused here.  I
>> thought we used the _update-info-dir dependency to save having to add the
>> postinstall scripts built by prep_gnu_info.sh.  How would "install-info" get
>> called on the new info files?
> 
> I don't know why dependencies on _update-info-dir keep creeping into
> various setup.hint files but I have just taken a sweep through the
> setup.hints in the release and release-2 directories.
> 
> You should not be adding this dependency to your setup.hint file.

  OK, I won't.


  I must be missing something here.  How and when does the info directory get
updated?  Is running install-info on newly added info files under
/usr/share/info superfluous for some reason that I don't know about?

    cheers,
      DaveK