Re: [help-texinfo] Adding info documents to /usr/share/info

[tomas]

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On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:11:24PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
> I am trying to add info documents to my local repository.
> 
> I am downloading info documents, which I copy to /usr/share/info.
> 
> I proceed to recreate the "dir" index via:
> 
> # for f in $(ls *.gz); do install-info $f; done

Hm. There seem to be more than one install-info (specifically: Debian's,
Gnu's [1], [2]). Debian itself seems to be working on the move from
Debian's version to Gnu's.

> While this is running, I see a few "unable to determine description for
> `dir' entry - giving up" messages.

Seems to be Debian's version guessing from the limited knowledge I
have).

[...]

Cf. the references. Debian's install-info (the one you most probably are
running) seems to rely on some heading format (and seems uncapable of
installing correctly multi-section documents).

On your system, Gnu's version is most probably called "ginstall-info".

[...]

> All apologies if I looked in the wrong places [...]

No need to apologize. "Constantly looking in the wrong places" would be
a good job description for what most of us do, right? ;-)

[1] <http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s12.2>
[2] <http://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo>

Hope those are useful pointers

Regards
- -- tomás
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