/sbin/install-info causing scripts to fail esp. in gcc srpms

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Fri Jul 23 18:22:02 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 19:02, Mike McLean wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:51:37 +0300, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
> > AFAICT, this particular one is not only a packaging problem, but also
> > manifests an install-info bug.  Try it out with gnat_ugn_unw.info.gz
> > from gcc-gnat-3.4.1-7.
> 
> Sure, this is both a packaging problem and an install-info problem.
> 
> There are several reasons (such as --excludedocs) why packages should
> not rely on install-info exiting cleanly.  So any package whose
> scriptlets will fail because of install-info need to be fixed.

Exactly.





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