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

[Mike McLean <mikem rtp gmail com>]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:51:37 +0300, Ville Skyttä <ville skytta 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.