On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:08:20PM +1300, J.Chris Findlay wrote: >Hi, I think this is the right place for this.
Actually, it's not. This isn't a bug-reporting mailing list. >I noticed that every time /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh runs, it >appends to the old dir info-entry, rather than replacing it. (This >was happening every time I updated cygwin.) > >Upon further investigation I noticed that the above script does a "rm >-f /usr/info/dir", but then writes it's output to >"/usr/share/info/dir" instead. > >I believe this needs to be changed to "rm -f /usr/share/info/dir" to >correct the problem. If you read the description for "install-info", you'll see that only new sections are supposed to be appended to /usr/share/info/dir. So, really, the rm should not be required. In my version of /usr/share/info/dir there are a couple of duplicates but they shouldn't cause any harm and they definitely don't seem to be indicative of a dir that is growing constantly. I'll release a new version of this "package" but if your /usr/share/info/dir file has a lot of duplication, you have a problem which removing /usr/share/info/dir will only mask. If your problem persists, please use the cygwin mailing list to report it. cgf
