Re: install-info fails for many packages
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:28:44PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Jan Tomasek wrote:
> > Shame on me! I'm very sorry, I installed TexLive7 and allowed it to place
> > links in /usr/local/bin :((
> >
> > | semik:~# which install-info
> > | /usr/local/bin/install-info
> > | semik:~# ls -l /usr/local/bin/install-info
> > l rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 Oct 16 14:53 /usr/local/bin/install-info -> /usr/local/TeXLive7/bin/i386-linux/install-info
>
> Of course this would not be a problem if dpkg would set it's path to
> so as to make sure it would run anything outside of /usr/bin /bin etc....
> when running postinstall scripts...
No, that's a design decision. Sometimes you *want* to override things,
and if dpkg clobbered your overrides that would be extremely confusing.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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