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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Subject: Re: make install-info error messages
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:02:09 +0200
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Greg Minshall writes:
> install-info(doc/org): replacing existing dir entry for `org'
> cp: /var/backups/infodir.bak: Permission denied
> install-info(doc/org): couldn't backup /Users/minshall/usr/share/info/dir in /var/backups/infodir.bak: Inappropriate ioctl for device

What does 'install-info --version' say?  This is most certainly not GNU
install-info or there's a wrapper around it.  In any case there should
probably be a switch to skip the backup for non-administrative users or
another version of install-info (try ginstall-info, perhaps) that
doesn't try to work with system files.


Regards,
Achim.
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