Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> writes: > On 2009-07-14 21:28 (-0300), tyler wrote: > >> Is there anyway to customize info files in a way that will be >> respected by future package updates? For example, the info entries for >> the R-doc package get filed under "Programming", but I'd prefer they >> were under "R". I can change the entry in /usr/share/info/dir, but it >> gets overwritten the next time any info files get updated. Any >> suggestions? > > As far as I know there are no any simple solutions. You need to edit the > R-doc package's info documents themselves and change the section. It's > the "INFO-DIR-SECTION" keyword. "install-info" command will update the > "dir" file. The problem is that next version of R-doc package will > overwrite your changes. > > Perhaps you can make a script which edits the info files automatically > (using "sed" or something).
Ok, thanks. I'll try writing a script of my own. Is there some way to trigger the script to run following every package update, or even better anytime the dir has changed? Cheers, Tyler -- Saint Mary's - they do science there! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org