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

Fri Jul 23 05:51:37 UTC 2004

On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 07:19, Mike McLean wrote:
> This is a common packaging problem.  Please file a bug against the
> individual package
> when you encounter this.

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.

> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:14:12 -0400 (EDT), Robert Hardy <rhardy at webcon.ca> wrote:
> > Adding || true to the end of ALL install-info install commands (--delete
> > lines don't need it) in the gcc rpm seems to guarantee we will avoid this
> > problem. For example:
> > /sbin/install-info --info-dir=/usr/share/info /usr/share/info/gnat_ugn_unw.info.gz || true
> 
> The usual idiom is ||: