On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:41:25PM -0600, DJ Lucas wrote: > > I installed bc-1.06, and it seems to have over-written > > /usr/share/info/dir so that the only "info" item which appears is for > > dc.
> Did you try to move from destdir? If so, then you overwrote the > installed dir file. Yes, I have been using the treeutils method which someone suggested. So I see what happened. How best to prevent such mishaps in future? Are there other shared files besides this one of which I need to be wary? > Besides using your backup? ;-) heh-heh.... > Hopefully something to the effect of > this group of commands as the root user will work sufficiently: > > for file in `ls /usr/share/info/* | sed '/^dir$/d'` > do > install-info --dir-file=/usr/share/info/dir --info-file=$file > done That looks promising. Thanks so much! Scott Swanson -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
