In the latest alpha release of fileutils the info dir entry
documentation has some problems. When installed with install-info
from texinfo 4.0 it creates 'dir' entries that don't go anywhere.
Additionally they are not install-info --delete'd.
I am not sure what was intended. They don't seem to belong where they
were. The simplest thing seemed to be to remove them. Which was my
fix. I include the details at the end.
I did not see it there but the NEWS file should include a note for
people that package, such as myself. Previously the info files were
in fileutils, textutils, sh-utils but now are combined. Which means
that prior to installing the new coreutils.info you should
install-info --delete fileutils.info and sh-utils.info and
textutils.info to remove the old entries or there will be conflicts.
After a package upgrade installation they are gone and it is too late
to clean up the 'info/dir' files. This is just one of those
transistions to work through. I added the above to the preinstall
scripts and everything is fine.
Bob
diff -ru ../fileutils-4.1.5.original/doc/coreutils.texi ./doc/coreutils.texi
--- ../fileutils-4.1.5.original/doc/coreutils.texi Wed Dec 19 02:44:12 2001
+++ ./doc/coreutils.texi Mon Jan 7 19:11:18 2002
@@ -24,12 +24,6 @@
@format
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
* @sc{gnu} Utilities: (coreutils). @sc{gnu} Utilities.
-* Common options: Common options.
-* File permissions: Access modes.
-* Date input formats: Specifying date strings.
-* Opening the software toolbox: The software tools philosophy.
-* GNU Free Documentation License: The license for this documentation.
-
* basename: (coreutils)basename invocation. Strip directory and suffix.
* cat: (coreutils)cat invocation. Concatenate and write files.
* chgrp: (coreutils)chgrp invocation. Change file groups.
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