[Fink-devel] info files

2006-08-21 Thread TheSin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 since I know nothing about InfoDocs: could someone tell me what this means? No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'. install-info(/sw/share/info/gengetopt.info): unable to determine description for `dir' entry - giving up /sw/bin/dpk

Re: [Fink-devel] info files

2006-08-21 Thread Martin Costabel
TheSin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > since I know nothing about InfoDocs: > > could someone tell me what this means? > > No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'. > install-info(/sw/share/info/gengetopt.info): unable to determine > description for `

Re: [Fink-devel] info files

2006-08-21 Thread TheSin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 it starts with... This is gengetopt.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.8 from gengetopt.texinfo. This manual is for GNU Gengetopt (version 2.17, 14 July 2006), a tool to write command line option parsers for C programs. is this the wrong typ

Re: [Fink-devel] info files

2006-08-21 Thread Daniel Macks
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:19:48AM -0600, TheSin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > since I know nothing about InfoDocs: > > could someone tell me what this means? > > No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'. > install-info(/sw/share/info/gengetopt.info):

Re: [Fink-devel] info files

2006-08-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Daniel Macks wrote: [] > The messages are quite literal in what is missing: you need to add a > START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY block or a "This file documents" paragraph to > gengetopt.info. Should we really need to hack GNU-supplied GNU info files? Something isn't right there. I haven't followed the histo

Re: [Fink-devel] info files

2006-08-22 Thread TheSin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So I should likely wait till we come up with a policy for how fink will handle this? - --- TS http://southofheaven.org/ Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 22-Aug-06, at 1:42 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Daniel Macks wrote

Re: [Fink-devel] info files

2006-08-22 Thread Daniel Macks
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:42:34AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > Daniel Macks wrote: > [] > > The messages are quite literal in what is missing: you need to add a > > START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY block or a "This file documents" paragraph to > > gengetopt.info. > > Should we really need to hack GNU-sup

Re: [Fink-devel] info files

2006-08-22 Thread TheSin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Also it seems that our install-info is out of date from debian's, maybe we should update ours? - --- TS http://southofheaven.org/ Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 22-Aug-06, at 9:57 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Tue, Aug

Re: [Fink-devel] info files

2006-08-22 Thread Daniel Macks
The concept of versioning in dpkg's install-info appears to have no meaning...when dpkg is built, it patches its own version string into install-info. So "dpkg x.y.z supplies install-info x.y.z" always, and says nothing about the features or changes within install-info. The install-info in the lat

Re: [Fink-devel] info files

2006-08-22 Thread TheSin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 well was an idea :P Just want to get the new gengetopt out :P Shall I just comment out the InfoDocs: field for now? - --- TS http://southofheaven.org/ Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 22-Aug-06, at 10:58 AM, Daniel Mac