Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 03:13:39 -0800 From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@cs.berkeley.edu> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading texinfo Message-ID: <199701071113.DAA01100@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Jan 1997 02:48:42 PST." <199701071048.CAA03643@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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> * Yeah, I assumed some sort of default rule could be defined in > * bsd.port.mk, up to you. It should also be set up so that packages > * use @exec and @unexec to install info files. I guess this too > * falls on the package maintainer. Unless I'm wrong, this seems > * like a shortcoming of the pkg_create utility. > > Just tell me how to call install-info and we can discuss the > solutions. briefly: install-info [--delete] info-file dir-file either adds or with --delete removes the entries for info-file from dir-file. if the info file is not properly equiped (it must have the extra commands I mentioned in previous mail) install-info will exit with non-zero status and print install-info: no info dir entry in `file.info' a lot of packages will not have the extra data yet, but its easy to add and I think it would be worth doing it just to have a ports tree that installs info-files correctly. you either modify the texinfo source or the info file itself, either will do. -josh
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