On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Eric Belanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just want to point out FS#11501. Basically, as we are now adding info > pages to packages, we are using a .install file which runs install-info. > This tool is part of texinfo. Therefore we should either add a dependency on > texinfo to all these packages or alternatively add texinfo to the base > group. > > Personnally, I prefer adding texinfo to the base group. It is simpler and > would make more sense as the tools for the man pages are already in base. > Let me know what you think. texinfo is currently out-of-date so I could do > that change at the same time.
+1 > BTW, texinfo provides its own info pages. Currently these files are included > in the package but there's no .install script. If I add a script, then > technically, it'll need to depend on itself. I'm thinking that it might > cause problems for users who are installing it for the first time or with > the installer. I could bypass this issue by not running install-info on > post-install but only on post-upgrade and removal. Any better idea/comments? It is post-install, not pre-install, so there should be no issues at all running it.
