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Subject: Re: gnu/1550: "make install" needs to know how to update /usr/local/info/dir
To: asami@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:30:04 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199608300930.CAA28383@freefall.freebsd.org> from Satoshi Asami at "Aug 30, 96 02:30:03 am"
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Satoshi Asami wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR ports/1550; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami)
> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freefall.FreeBSD.org, tli@jnx.com
> Cc:  Subject: Re: gnu/1550: "make install" needs to know how to update /usr/local/info/dir
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 02:25:16 -0700 (PDT)
> 
>   * 	If a port installs info-style documentation in /usr/local/info, it
>   * 	should update /usr/local/info/dir so that there's an index to it.
>  
>  I agree.  But how? ;)
>  
>  This has been discussed before, and no solution came up.  The closest
>  (I think) was the idea to write a utility to add to and delete entries
>  from dir safely.  Something that takes arguments like "section name",
>  "info file name" and "comment".  (And it created the section if it
>  doesn't exist, etc....)

There's a utility called gen-dir-node (hope I got it right) in the
texinfo distribution. It requires the `right' layout for the info
files (don't ask me about details currently, I'd have to take a look
myself). We should probably move texinfo to src/contrib anyway ...

As an aside: can mtree be persuaded to install a link localdir->dir in
/usr/local/info when run in the install target?

tg