Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [for context: I just changed Engine.pm in CVS to use --info-dir > instead of --infodir as argument to install-info, as I got repeatedly > error reports by people which have /usr/bin before /sw/sbin in their > PATH; thus for them the texinfo install-info was used, not the dpkg > install-info we normally use. Problem is, the texinfo one doesn't > support --infodir] > > At 16:45 Uhr -0500 11.11.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: > >Max, haven't you substituted one problem for another with this change? > >For a long time, we've used the dpkg version of install-info not the > >texinfo one. Will it accept the other syntax? If not, you're creating > >a situation where people will make debs that other people can't install... > > I guess you will know more about texinfo than I do (which is not much > :-). see above for my motivation to make the change. > > Are the inputs/outputs of the two install-info's actually > incompatible? If so, then a better "fix" would be to hardcode > %p/sbin/install-info in the pre/postinstscripts. No problem to change > this.
It looks like the inputs/outputs are not compatible. I tested with the gzip package, and /usr/bin/install-info wants to use a file /sw/share/info/dir to index stuff but we don't have that file. On the other hand, /sw/sbin/install-info doesn't need that indexing file. So I think this should be changed to hardode %p/sbin/install-info in the two scripts, as you suggested. -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel