Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:58:28 +0200 From: Per Hedeland <per@hedeland.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is the info viewer? Message-ID: <e1412d74-f50d-a9a5-047c-678d42d8319e@hedeland.org> In-Reply-To: <20190912183952.c4873f5b.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20190910070033.GA29721@admin.sibptus.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1909102030500.59741@fledge.watson.org> <20190911041439.9ba45e18.freebsd@edvax.de> <10971217-3072-cfee-785d-3748e9879a2f@gmail.com> <20190911110708.95a9b3f8.freebsd@edvax.de> <44ftl3hrdf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20190911160926.5b3549c3.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1909111123160.59741@fledge.watson.org> <73a70d38-ff87-54b0-89ef-2aae257b03df@hedeland.org> <20190912025852.57f64546.freebsd@edvax.de> <218ac7d6-6098-0310-93a6-9fc77d578027@hedeland.org> <20190912183952.c4873f5b.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 2019-09-12 18:39, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:39:42 +0200, Per Hedeland wrote: >> On 2019-09-12 02:58, Polytropon wrote: >>> On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:47:17 +0200, Per Hedeland wrote: >>>> But, but... - surely there are no info files in base? They live in >>>> /usr/local/share/info, which should be enough of an indication, but >>>> just to make sure: >>>> >>>> $ ls /usr/share/info >>>> ls: /usr/share/info: No such file or directory >>>> $ ls /usr/local/share/info | wc -l >>>> 78 >>>> $ pkg which /usr/local/share/info/* | grep 'installed by package' | wc -l >>>> 77 >>>> $ pkg which /usr/local/share/info/* | grep -v 'installed by package' >>>> /usr/local/share/info/dir was not found in the database >>>> $ cat /usr/local/share/info/dir >>>> Produced by: indexinfo 0.3.1. >>>> >>>> File: dir, Node: Top This is the top of the INFO tree >>>> ... >>> >>> I think you have obtained this from a current FreeBSD version. >> >> Correct, sorry for not mentioning that - it was 12.0-RELEASE (i.e. >> indeed current but not CURRENT:-). I now also checked 10.3-RELEASE - >> had ~20 files in /usr/share/info and not even the directory >> /usr/local/share/info, but quite a few files in /usr/local/info - and >> 11.1-RELEASE - had neither /usr/share/info nor /usr/local/share/info, >> but many files in /usr/local/info, so it seems no info files in base >> there either - and I wouldn't really call 11.1-RELEASE "current"... > > You can easily differentiate: > > /usr/share/info is (correct: was) created by the OS and populated > with info files corresponding to GNU software components. > > /usr/local/info and /usr/local/share/info (correct location) are > created as needed by a port, and populated by whatever info files > that port will install. On a fresh FreeBSD install, they typically > do not exist; no file in /etc/mtree does contain an entry for a > directory named "info" in the /usr/local subtree (whereas on older > FreeBSD versions, those _were_ created as empty directories when > the OS was installed). Yes, of course - I'm not sure why you think this needs to be spelled out, perhaps because my report above wasn't very structured. To summarize: Out of 10.3-RELEASE, 11.1-RELEASE, and 12.0-RELEASE, only 10.3-RELEASE had any info files in base (in /usr/share/info). Whether info files from the particular packages installed on these systems were in /usr/local/info or /usr/local/share/info or both isn't really relevant to this discussion, I just mentioned what I found. --Per
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