On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Dan McGee wrote:
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 texinfo is currently out-of-date so I could do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.
I was probably confusing pre-install with post-install for some reason.
I realize now that adding the standard .install file to handle info
files won't cause any problems.
Eric
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