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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 07:49:07 +0200 (IST)
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On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Peter J. Farley III wrote:

> Ugh.  We're going to need a little automation to match up the programs 
> and categories as the DIR file is maintained and expanded.  If you 
> don't object to gawk code, I could whip up an extractor program to read 
> the DIR file and output a new file with program name, tab, category (or 
> any other format that seems workable).  This new file could than be 
> sorted and the result file read by zippo to construct the install-info 
> line from the program name.
> 
> Or should zippo read the DIR file itself?

Sorry, I don't understand what problem you are trying to solve.  I 
thought we've already agreed that DIR's maintenance is mostly done 
manually, and is only needed when a new package is ported, or a program 
is added/deleted from a package.  Given that, the amount of effort one 
should put into a DSM file is minimal: most packages should not need to 
run install-info at all, but instead rely on the existing DIR entries.

In the few exceptional cases, the install-info command in the DSM should 
be carefully crafted by hand by the person who does the port.  With a few 
guidelines, that should be an easy job.

Am I missing something?