Re: info files index generation on fedora 30 - how does the 'dir' file get generated?

2019-07-04 Thread Todd Zullinger
Hi, Ronaldo Mercado wrote: > I think the packages in old versions of fedora had a %postinstall script > that called /sbin/install-info. Those scripts seem to be gone. > > How does the /usr/share/info/dir generation work on fedora 30? Individual package scriptlets have been replaced with a file t

Re: info files index generation on fedora 30 - how does the 'dir' file get generated?

2019-07-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 00:31:50 +0100 Ronaldo Mercado wrote: > Yesterday I noticed that the info files from /usr/share/info/*.info.gz > on my fedora 30 pc were missing. All the info files are there and in the directory on my f30 system, though I couldn't say where they came from. I haven't installe

info files index generation on fedora 30 - how does the 'dir' file get generated?

2019-07-04 Thread Ronaldo Mercado
Hi, Yesterday I noticed that the info files from /usr/share/info/*.info.gz on my fedora 30 pc were missing. This was because emacs 'info' command reported "emacs can't find the info directory node" A while the /usr/share/info/dir file had been generated. What generated the info directory fil