Re: dpkg install-info bug
Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.apple.fink.core |
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| Organization | Fink Core Team |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 7/9/12 11:08 AM, Max Horn wrote: > Hi there, > > I was looking into packaging automake 1.12.1, whose test suite was experiencing several failures. While investigating these, I noticed the source of that: Our install-info is not patched to adjust to the PREFIX Fink is installed to. This seems like a pretty serious (albeit ancient) bug to me. My guess is that this was mostly hidden in older OS X and Fink versions, which were building as root. (Though even then I am surprised this never caused any problem... ?). > > Anyway, so /sw/sbin/install-info from dpkg contains this code: > ... > $infodir='/usr/share/info'; > $maxwidth=79; > $Text::Wrap::columns=$maxwidth; > $backup='/var/backups/infodir.bak'; > $default='/usr/share/base-files/info.dir'; > ... > > It is telling that Fink itself works around this by always invoking install-info with an "--infodir=%p/share/info" argument... I really wonder why that was done, instead of patching install-info... ? Anyway, here is the suggested patch: > > -$infodir='/usr/share/info'; > +$infodir='@PREFIX@/share/info'; > $maxwidth=79; > $Text::Wrap::columns=$maxwidth; > -$backup='/var/backups/infodir.bak'; > -$default='/usr/share/base-files/info.dir'; > +$backup='@PREFIX@/var/backups/infodir.bak'; > +$default='@PREFIX@/share/base-files/dir-base'; > > > Now I could push this change to 10.4 and 10.7 as well as the fink package manager module. But since this is a central piece of our infrastructure, of course I am not going to make such a change before getting some feedback. So, feedback away, please :). > > > Cheers, > Max Or, you could push it to a branch of fink master and people could check it out and test it. :-) -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ fink-core mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-core