Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2001/11/15/22:23:59
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:56:32PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>As Chris points out, this is about graceful recovery from
>packaging/maintainer screwups. Say I accidentally release an ncurses
>package with a /usr/info/dir. Blammo -- everybody's dir file is screwed
>up. How to fix? Right now, I must manually do this:
>
>for fn in /usr/info/*.info ; do install-info --dir-file=/usr/info/dir
>--info-file=$fn ; done
>
>*Well* beyond the newbie's capability. But "reinstall the info package" or
>"run fix-info" is nice and simple.
Sure. If you've got a solution, I have no objections. I just didn't
think it was a big deal, either way.
And, ur, I've been one of those screwed up package maintainers. I don't
even currently rebuild dir in any of my packages and I really should.
Or, actually, I think either setup.exe should be intelligent enough to
do this for you or there should be some way for a package to say "please
run this standard bit of machinery for me".
cgf
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