bug#59982: 29.0.60; Can not find info when I install package with package-vc-install

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Feng Shu <tumashu@163.com> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Feng Shu <tumashu@163.com> writes:
>>
>>> When I install emacs-eat with package-vc-info, I find that I can not
>>> read info of emacs-eat with info command.
>>
>> I assume you mean `package-vc-install' (as you mentioned in the
>> subject).
>>
>>> I check eat install dir, and find the file eat.info and eat.texi.
>>>
>>> ```
>>>   /home/feng/.emacs.d/elpa-29/eat:
>>>   总用量 1776
>>>   drwxr-xr-x  6 feng feng   4096 12月 12 08:28 .
>>>   drwxr-xr-x 81 feng feng   8192 12月  8 08:30 ..
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng  25718 12月 12 08:28 ChangeLog
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng  10475 12月  2 16:14 CONTRIBUTE
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng  35149 12月  2 16:14 COPYING
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng    600 12月 12 08:28 dir
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng    237 12月  2 16:14 .dir-locals.el
>>>   drwxr-xr-x  2 feng feng     80 12月  2 16:14 e
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng   3743 12月 12 08:28 eat-autoloads.el
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng 251774 12月 12 08:28 eat.el
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng 333492 12月 12 08:28 eat.elc
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng 119891 12月 12 08:28 eat.info
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng    435 12月 12 08:28 eat-pkg.el
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng 243305 12月  7 10:19 eat-tests.el
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng 206236 12月 12 08:28 eat-tests.elc
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng  42895 12月 12 08:28 eat.texi
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng   3645 12月  2 16:14 eat.ti
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng     80 12月  2 16:14 .elpaignore
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng  23434 12月  2 16:14 fdl.texi
>>>   drwxr-xr-x  8 feng feng   4096 12月 12 08:28 .git
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng    100 12月 12 08:28 .gitignore
>>>   -rwxr-xr-x  1 feng feng  17083 12月  2 16:14 gitlog-to-changelog
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng  35089 12月  2 16:14 gpl.texi
>>>   drwxr-xr-x  2 feng feng     18 12月 12 08:28 integration
>>>   -rwxr-xr-x  1 feng feng   1388 12月  2 16:14 make-changelog
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng   1598 12月  2 16:14 Makefile
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng   1160 12月  2 16:14 NEWS
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng   5819 12月 12 08:28 README.org
>>>   drwxr-xr-x  2 feng feng     35 12月 12 08:28 term
>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 feng feng 376807 12月  2 16:14 texinfo.tex
>>>
>>> ```
>>
>> This looks pretty similar to the results on my own system, I also have a
>> eat.info file that is 119891 byte large.  What I noticed though is that
>> if I had an info root node buffer lying around, the buffer wasn't
>> updated so I had to kill and re-create it.
>>
>> Installing eat using package-install appears to give me a eat.info byte
>> large file, but that might just be a different version of the manual.
>> Otherwise it behaves the same -- the important part is that just
>> installing a package and downloading it using
>> package-vc-install/checkout gives us the same layout.  The manual
>> "activation" is still handled by package.el.
>
> I do not know about info command, so I do not know this is eat's bug or
> package-vc's bug :-)

Are you using info from within a terminal or inside of Emacs?  Perhaps
you could share the contents of `Info-directory-list', that should
indicate if package.el is doing it's job.  As I said, the above makes it
seem like it wasn't package-vc's fault, and eat appears to work fine on
my machine.