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Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de> wrote on 04/19/2007 02:27:49
PM:

# When binary distributions (aka NNNNNNb.zip) are produced it should be
paid
# attention that a possible generated dir file by the build proccess
# should *not*
# be included in the zip archive.  Nowadays GNU Makefiles usualy generate
# one dir file during installation proccess if they can not find one.  This
# implies that when the package is installed the djgpp dir file may be
replaced
# by this useless one.  Even worse if an dir file entry appears in the
manifest
# file for that binary archive.  This will remove the dir file from the
/info
# directory and the average user will no longer be able to read info docs.
# This happened to me today when I deinstalled the old bnu217b.zip to
reinstall
# the new one.  It took me some time to understand why info stopped to work
# as it should and what had happened  with my dir file.

Yes, I've fixed that in my new packages - that should be fixed in the new
binutils.  (That was one of those "administrative details" that I mentioned
:)

When I was first packaging I did not fully understand how the manifests
were
produced.  Now I have a script which does most of the grunt work for me.
Once I get doschk integrated into it I will post it here.

# Last but not least, is there any particular reason why
# /current/v2gnu/bnu217b.zip
# has been updated but not /beta/v2gnu/bnu217b.zip?

Were there not both packages then?  That indicates that I missed something.
I readily believe that since I did pieces of that update on both sides of
delorie.com being down, so I may have failed to do something that I thought
I'd already done...

I'll double-check that and resend as appropriate.

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