Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2001/11/15/23:34:36
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>*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".
You mean setup.exe itself should do:
if tarball contains /usr/info/*, then
install-info --dir-file=/usr/info/dir --info-file=$(each one)
end
I disagree. AFAIK, RPM doesn't do this. I believe you have to do:
%post
install-info .....
in the spec file. Which is analogous to each of *our* packages that have
info files providing an /etc/postinstall/pkg.sh script to handle the
operation for its own info files.
It's a bit painful to munge a package's Makefiles to install a "random"
file like "autoconf.postinstall" into "/etc/postinstall/" -- but both my
proposal and Robert's proposal use an *external* script/makefile to drive
package building -- and in THAT script/makefile, installing the postinstall
file is a cinch.
Point: energy barrier for maintainers to do this sort of thing will be
lower after the new -src standard is specified. Especially if folks just
copy/adapt the build scripts that Robert and I have been throwing around.
--Chuck
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