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?
Which is why I tend to (a) rely on cygport's automatic postinstall
scripts, or (b) use explicit postinstalls. And, when I'm being REALLY
conscientious, also an explicit preremove.
--
Chuck
P.S. I've added a 'requires: bash coreutils' line to terminfo's
setup.hint on sourceware. I'll also make sure the next package includes
that change.
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