On 06/24/2010 01:33 AM, Timothy Rice wrote: >> True, considering the for statement just walks through the entire >> directory >> anyhow. >> ... >> Maybe there's another reason for walking through the directory, other than >> just taking the opportunity to catch any other missed dir entries? > > It occurred to me that maybe once mysql is installed, info can then use > mysql to, say, manage a database of entries, or something. Pure > conjecture, but if true, it could explain why dir would need to be > rebuilt. However, nothing I've noticed in any documentation for either > mysql or info suggests that this is actually true. > > Now, if nothing like that is really going on, then may I submit to the > BLFS editors that the suggested install commands for mysql be streamlined > and simplified? If the walk through the entire directory is just to pick > up any info files that have been missed to date, then I don't think that > should be part of the mysql install. It would be more appropriate to put > such tidying up in a module of its own. >
I suspect that there were more info files at one time (best guess). The only installed file is mysql.info with 5.1.47. install-info should work fine without deleting the dir file. Not sure about MCPM as I don't use it, but I'd suspect that you'd want to update the info dir as the root user anyway so that it is not incorrectly owned by the package user for mysql. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
