On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:23:17PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > 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.
Thanks! I haven't used dpkg before, that's quite handy. The info files do indeed only go to one place, and not in /usr/local. What I had noticed, though, was that more than one dir file had references to the r-doc-info files. However, on purging and reinstalling r-doc-info, I no longer have that problem, and can only assume I made the mess myself and then forgot about it. > > 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. > Alright then. I'll have to come up with a consistent personal policy then, and hope I remember what it is before I ask for help next time. Cheers, Tyler -- I'm Tyler Smith and I approve of this email. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
