From: Lluís <xscript@gmx.net>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: info handling dir.gz
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:21:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vcmoysvi.fsf@ginnungagap.bsc.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hchay82oo7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:53:28 -0500")
Glenn Morris writes:
> Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
>> + ;; As of 2011 or thereabouts, some weirdness in the
>> + ;; transition from Debian to GNU install-info results
>> + ;; in the directory file being gzipped. Sigh.
> It's probably a bug in some package you have installed.
> See eg http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537835
> I don't have a dir.gz on my Debian testing system.
I too have a /usr/share/info/dir.gz file. That probably explains why the info
directory has been so empty lately :)
Reinstalling a random package removes /usr/share/info/dir and regenerates
/usr/share/info/dir.gz.
So, I'd say it's necessary to install this patch. Besides, support for gzipped
dir files in install-info has been there there since version 4.0 (sep 1999), so
this patch can only make the handling more complete.
Lluis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-01 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-01 9:25 info handling dir.gz Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-03-01 17:53 ` Glenn Morris
2012-03-01 18:21 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-03-01 20:21 ` Lluís [this message]
2012-03-01 20:39 ` Lluís
2012-03-06 3:07 ` Glenn Morris
2012-03-06 6:40 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-06 8:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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