I am using the package management scripts in more_control_helpers. One of the issues with that is that many of those packages using the "info" mechanism try to update /usr/share/info/dir and fail because of no permission.
The doc says to ignore the error, which I've been doing. But then unbeknownst to me, 'nroff' fails to install, also most of the "tmac' macros are not installed. In fact all macros under the 'tmac' folder in the source. This gets noticed by the 'Man-db' package install which fails in a 'nroff' call, and after manually installing nroff, it fails in a 'troff' call because 'tty-char' macro is not found. So on a whim I ran "chmod 666 /usr/share/info/dir" then re-ran the Groff install and lo and behold, everything was installed properly. Therefore I conclude it is unsafe to ignore the attempted update to the 'dir' file, which seems to cause the installs to exit prematurely. This is distressing, since I've just ignored that error on all preceding packages! Does anyone still use the "more_control_helpers" method of installing packages as a user of the same name as the package? It would seem like that doc is also unmaintained in the last few releases. My man command still doesn't work right, not sure what didn't install! The output is not formatted, seems like there is something else missing. sigh! Any pointers? --Mark
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