On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:56:32PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >As Chris points out, this is about graceful recovery from >packaging/maintainer screwups. Say I accidentally release an ncurses >package with a /usr/info/dir. Blammo -- everybody's dir file is screwed >up. How to fix? Right now, I must manually do this: > >for fn in /usr/info/*.info ; do install-info --dir-file=/usr/info/dir >--info-file=$fn ; done > >*Well* beyond the newbie's capability. But "reinstall the info package" or >"run fix-info" is nice and simple.
Sure. If you've got a solution, I have no objections. I just didn't think it was a big deal, either way. And, ur, I've been one of those screwed up package maintainers. I don't even currently rebuild dir in any of my packages and I really should. Or, actually, I think either setup.exe should be intelligent enough to do this for you or there should be some way for a package to say "please run this standard bit of machinery for me". cgf
