Opened 21 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
#485 closed defect (fixed)
/usr/share/info/dir doesn't always get updated properly
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | CVS |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | markh@… |
Description
Right now my /usr/share/info/dir only has libtool entries (probably from when I reinstalled libtool not too long ago after the entire system was already installed). Other problems have been reported too that the 'dir' file isn't always updated and sometimes just overwritten.
While we can't account for every package in the world, let's at least check all the packages we install with LFS and that all the indexes appear in the 'dir' file as they should be.
Change History (7)
comment:1 by , 21 years ago
comment:2 by , 21 years ago
| Priority: | high → lowest |
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comment:3 by , 21 years ago
| Cc: | added |
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comment:5 by , 20 years ago
| Priority: | lowest → normal |
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comment:6 by , 20 years ago
I'm going to add a blurb about this problem into the Ch 6 texinfo section. I cannot really find another place that is appropriate. Essentially, it'll give instructions on how to recreate the "dir" file. It will be made clear that the user can run the optional commands at any time, including once in BLFS.
Note from Jack Brown:
<quote> Personally once I'm done (or whenever I want to sync up "dir") I just run:
cd /usr/share/info rm dir for f in * do install-info $f dir done
seems to work fine.. no duplicate enteries or anything. (notice I don't use "for f in *.info because some files down't end with that extension) </quote>