Re: Intention to re-write /usr/sbin/install-info
Hi,
>>"Brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu> writes:
Brandon> On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
>> I strongly object! Please don't rename our install-info just
>> because the FSF has a program with the same name. Every package out
>> there that installs GNU info docs uses this script and might fail.
Brandon> Wait a minute, from what I understood, every non-debian
Brandon> package installing GNU info docs was already failing. I'm
Brandon> trying to fix something that is broken, not break something
Brandon> that is working.
I think that the adding a new program with the delay *is*
breaking something that is working ;-)
Brandon> Didn't you understand that the whole idea behind the script
Brandon> was to keep using the install-info for the debian-packages,
Brandon> but generate a warning so they will eventually convert over
Brandon> the the dinstall-info? Perhaps this is more clear in the
Brandon> compromise I recently posted.
I do not think that the proposal as it stands is secure
enough, nor that it does not break the upgrade path in the
long run. If i want to upgrade from 1.3.1 to 2.0, all my postrm
scripts that run install-info will break if the install-info has
changed in the meanwhile.
I know what you are thinking. We keep the old install-info a
while longer. This is sloppy thinking. What about upgrading from
1.3.1 to 3.0? 4.0? Why break Debian for FSF stupidity? (1/2 ;-)
>> I'd vote for installing FSF's install-info with a different name,
>> for example "gnu-install-info".
Brandon> But non-debian packages are looking for install-info and will
Brandon> use debians incompatable version. IIRC, the default root
Brandon> path has /usr/sbin before /usr/bin, and this is from bash
Brandon> itself, not /etc/profile. So what you are suggesting is to
Brandon> modify the default root path to install non-debian packages,
Brandon> a bad hack IMHO.
If you wish to install local packages, please put
/usr/local/bin before /usr/s?bin. If you think this is a bug, please
get FSF to change configure.in to use gnu-install-info instead.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <url:mailto:srivasta@acm.org>
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