Re: /usr/[share/]info/dir.gz ?
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:27:08AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > > where do /usr/info/dir.gz and /usr/share/info/dir.gz come from?
> > >
> > > On master usr/share/info/dir.gz is part of emacs20, on va /usr/info/dir.gz
> > > is part of emacs20 and on my (potato) system it does not exist at all (no
> > > /emacs20 installed).
> >
> > emacs20 is screwed up, then, it shouldn't contain that file. Please file a
> > (RC, if necessary) bug report against it.
> >
> > Currently, the dir file is in /usr/info/dir.
>
> I just checked on ftp-master... the slink, potato and current
> woody packages of emacs20 all have this file. Strange.
Great, so they're all broken. :/
I think install-info doesn't add to /usr/share/info/dir.gz, I think, so if
you have that file, it could be that you don't have any entries save Emacs'
in it. If it can read more dir files at once, then it's not so bad; if it
can't, then you have to remove the file.
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