[arch-dev-public] /usr/share/info/dir?

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun Jan 25 05:47:14 EST 2009


Ronald van Haren wrote:
> On 1/25/09, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>   
>> I don't know what this file is, but source-highlight contains
>> /usr/share/info/dir, which existed in my filesystem but didn't belong to
>> any package. Looks wrong to me ...
>>
>>
>>     
> you have to remove the file. Info files should be handled with an
> .install file. You can get an example in the ABS package [1]
>
> Ronald
>
> [1] /usr/share/pacman/proto-info.install
>   

Run "info" and you will see an index of information in info files on 
your system (provided they were added in post_install).  That file 
stores all the index information.

Allan

Allan





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