On 13 March 2008 at 15:01, tyler wrote: | I'm a little confused as to how Debian deals with texinfo files. The R | docs are a good example of my problems, so maybe you folks can explain | how this works. | | What I've noticed is that the texinfo files for R get appended/indexed | in /usr/share/info/dir as well as /usr/local/info. This results in
Careful. The Debian package places them in the former location as 'dpkg -L' on the package name shows you rather convincingly. And no Debian package will ever touch /usr/local [ apart from creating empty stanza directories like /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ ] ie no files should _ever_ be written there. | duplicated entries when I browse the info tree from Emacs. The only | solutions I can come up with involve personally editing the various | dir files on my system. This is not a good solution, as it requires | additional attention whenever I update the docs from the repositories. | Is there a better way to either set up things at my end, or to deal | with the way the docs are packaged? Now, if your question is how to combine entries from packages and from manual install -- I don't have a good solution. I think you're own your own. Maybe a system like doc-base can help. | The fact that I'm running Emacs 22.1.1 installed from sources provided Yes. Because now you have Debian and non-Debian messing around with your texinfo index files. You may have to clean that up yourself. When I play with newer emacsen. I typically just rebuild the Debian package from unstable. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
