[RFC] incremental rebase
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Dec 8 14:48:00 GMT 2014
On Dec 8 09:07, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 12/7/2014 6:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Dec 7 11:45, Achim Gratz wrote:
> >>Corinna Vinschen writes:
> >>>The _update-info-dir script just collects all info files from /usr/info
> >>>and /usr/share/info and creates new "dir" using install-info. I was
> >>>hoping that the method from _{inc}autorebase could be simply adapted to
> >>>include .info files instead of .dll, .so and .oct files.
> >>
> >>The .info suffix may not be universally used as it is not required. The
> >>check shouldn't be much more complicated (I'd extract for the info path
> >>instead of the suffix),
> >
> >Yeah, the filename rules are a bit weird. Info files may be split into
> >foo, foo-1, foo-2 and so on, and only the non-suffixed of them should be
> >fed to install-info. Plus, taking the compression suffix into account,
> >plus, there may be non-info files in the info dirs as well, see
> >/usr/share/info/libidn-components.png. Update-info-dir.sh ignores the
> >latter, but the --quite option suppresses any errors.
>
> I'm not convinced that we need to worry so much about all these details.
> What if we just check (based on timestamps of files in /etc/setup/*.lst.gz)
> whether anything has been installed into /usr/info or /usr/share/info since
> we last did this check. If so, then just do exactly what the current
> update-info-dir.sh does.
Fine with me. Except that we should probably get rid of /usr/info. As
far as we can trust the package search, there's no package installing
into /usr/info.
Corinna
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