Bug 82933 – compressing /usr/share/info/dir file breaks emacs's info mode

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Portage Development

[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) 2005-02-25 00:34:46 UTC]

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

[Comment 2 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2005-10-16 08:22:14 UTC]

NEEDINFO 

[Comment 3 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) 2005-10-29 12:01:33 UTC]

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

[Comment 4 SpanKY 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) 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