In upgrading from slink to frozen a couple of weeks ago, I seem to have messed up my info system. This is too bad because it's the way I like best to get at documentation.
I assume that the problems have to do with the shift to the /usr/share directory structure. Under slink, all the info files were in /usr/info; now they are split between /usr/info/ and /usr/share/info/ There are 3 different ways on this system to get at the info files: [1] from within emacs, [2] using Minfo, [3] using tkinfo. Minfo is the one I like best, but the documentation is slim and there is no configuration file controlling its behavior (as far as I have been able to tell). >From within emacs, I get the error message: `Can't find info directory'. Using Minfo, I get a top-level menu, but clicking on any of the items in the menu yields the error-message `menu item not found'. Clicking on the `emacs' menu-item crashes the program. Curiously, things seem to work as they are supposed to with tkinfo, but I don't use that much and haven't tested it as much the others. In trying to solve this, I have done the following: . run install-info in both directories; both have a dir file . defined INFOPATH in /etc/profile as : "/usr/info:/usr/share/info" I suppose I could move all the info files into /usr/share/info, run install-info again there and have INFOPATH defined only as /usr/share/info, but I'm worried that that may screw up future automatic upgrades, and have a suspicion that this kind of thing should be handled by the upgrade routines, and shouldn't have to be done by hand. There seem to be a number of related bug-reports in the archive, but I haven't seen any suggested fixes or workarounds. If there are any info-experts out there who could give some advice, I would be very grateful, Jim PS Is it only me or is the digest-service gone? The archive suggests that the list was active at least until April 1st, but I stopped receiving digests several days before that.
