This is the mail archive of the cygwin-apps mailing list for the Cygwin project.

Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: _update-info-dir (was Re: [RFC] GCC-4 new packaging.)

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA256
> 
> Dave Korn wrote:
>>   I must be missing something here.  How and when does the info directory get
>> updated?  Is running install-info on newly added info files under
>> /usr/share/info superfluous for some reason that I don't know about?
> 
> The _update-info-dir package version continually changes, so each time
> you download, you get a new version, which forces install-info to be run
> again.

  Thanks, that's the missing piece of the puzzle I didn't have! :)

  Well, not having to bother with either postinstall scripts OR dependencies
is even easier.  I have no problem complying with that!

    cheers,
      DaveK
Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]