Bug 82933

Summary:	compressing /usr/share/info/dir file breaks emacs's info mode
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	tim <t1m>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	minor	CC:	emacs
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description tim 2005-02-22 03:11:24 UTC

emerge compresses the file /usr/share/info/dir to dir.gz.

the info mode of emacs requires the uncompressed dir file to display the info files in /usr/share/info

(at least on my machine)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emacs M+x info (doesn't work)
2. gzcat /usr/share/info/dir.gz >/usr/share/info/dir
3. emacs M+x info (works)
4. emerge -u world
5. = 1.



Expected Results:  
emerge shouldn't compress the dir file

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-25 00:34:46 UTC

Is this an emacs bug or should portage not be doing this?

Comment 2 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-16 08:22:14 UTC

NEEDINFO

Comment 3 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-29 12:01:33 UTC

Emacs (and probably XEmacs and SXEmacs) doesn't support dir.gz.

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-10-30 00:32:16 UTC

well, no package should install /usr/share/info/dir{,.gz} which means this is
portage territory

Comment 5 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-04-06 04:46:17 UTC

which portage version do you encounter this problem with? I can't reproduce it with 2.1 and the code doesn't look like it would gzip the dir file.

Comment 6 tim 2006-04-06 05:13:26 UTC

actually, i can't reproduce this problem with a new installation of gentoo on another machine ... 
resolving as WORKSFORME now