On Wednesday 23 June 2010 21:32:41 Timothy Rice wrote: > That is what I thought 'dir' was for, and I guessed that that is what > install-info did. However, it does not make sense to me that the previous > dir needs to be deleted first, before redoing install-info for all the > packages already installed. True, considering the for statement just walks through the entire directory anyhow.
> Assuming the mysql package user does have write permissions to `dir', why > is it not sufficient to simply run a command such as the following?: > install-info mysql.info dir 2>/dev/null I'm afraid I don't have an answer, you may just have to play around and see if the same dir file gets produced. Toying around here, though, your suggested command seems to produce the same dir file as the for statement. Maybe there's another reason for walking through the directory, other than just taking the opportunity to catch any other missed dir entries? -- Regards, Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
