On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:20:39PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> Actually, I was debating removing this from cygport and letting >>> _update-info-dir take care of these, as this would appear to >>> significantly reduce the number of postinstall scripts. >> I think it's a good idea to just let _update-info-dir take care of this. >> It's going to run anyway so you end up just running install-info twice. > > Well, one of the problems with both cygport's current automatic handling of > info files, and the _update-info-dir metapackage, is that nobody ever runs > install-info --remove. And really, I don't see any way a metapackage like > _update-info-dir could ever do so -- How does it know what I *used* to have > installed, that now is installed no longer? It can't parse my existing dir > file, can it?
_update-info-dir deletes the dir file before it creates it. The only way an obsolete .info file can be added is if it somehow was not removed by setup. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
