-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:11:24PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > I am trying to add info documents to my local repository. > > I am downloading info documents, which I copy to /usr/share/info. > > I proceed to recreate the "dir" index via: > > # for f in $(ls *.gz); do install-info $f; done
Hm. There seem to be more than one install-info (specifically: Debian's, Gnu's [1], [2]). Debian itself seems to be working on the move from Debian's version to Gnu's. > While this is running, I see a few "unable to determine description for > `dir' entry - giving up" messages. Seems to be Debian's version guessing from the limited knowledge I have). [...] Cf. the references. Debian's install-info (the one you most probably are running) seems to rely on some heading format (and seems uncapable of installing correctly multi-section documents). On your system, Gnu's version is most probably called "ginstall-info". [...] > All apologies if I looked in the wrong places [...] No need to apologize. "Constantly looking in the wrong places" would be a good job description for what most of us do, right? ;-) [1] <http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s12.2> [2] <http://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo> Hope those are useful pointers Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFK4v98Bcgs9XrR2kYRAio5AJ49TAx2JNJlculFPB4xp73mWQTXwQCfXaCI q7C4kPw7Wd76yoezYiCI/vo= =jcXC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----