Re: Making the Info system FHS-compliant

[Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@icenet.fi>]

On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 03:46:09PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> 
> First, we should forbid the use of the hardcoded install-info's --infodir
> option in all maintainer scripts. This is really evil, because it does not
> allow us to change the location of the index file in a centralized place,
> i.e., by telling the install-info script itself (internally) to use a
> different location.
> 
> [ BTW: Is there a lintian check for the use of the --infodir option?
>   If there is not, maybe there should be, because the example in policy
>   about registering info docs does not use the --infodir option ].
> 

$ grep -- --infodir /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.p*
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ispell.postinst:     --infodir=/usr/info \
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ispell.prerm:        --infodir=/usr/info \

raise bugs (I have always heard that this was forbitten).

fab
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