Bug 164632

Summary:	info does not support dir.bz2
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin Väth <martin>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bradmwalker, ulm
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Martin Väth 2007-01-31 00:35:41 UTC

Actually, this seems to be a problem of "info" and "emacs", but portage might easily work around the problem: Although, in general, these programs have no difficulties with bz2-compressed info-files, this is not true for dir.bz2 in other directories than /usr/share/info.

For example, after emerge of emacs-cvs-22.0.93, the file /usr/share/info/emacs-22.0.93/dir.bz2 is created by portage, but although this directory is stored into INFOPATH, neither "info" nor "emacs" (tested only with 22.0.93) will display the nodes stored in that file. As soon as the file is decompressed, the data is displayed as expected. (The other compressed files cause no difficulty).

It seems to be accidental that a compressed /usr/share/info/dir.bz2 works anyway with "info" and "emacs" - maybe this "main" directory is treated somehow differently by these programs.

So my suggestion is that portage should always create uncompressed */dir files which would work around this strange behavior of "info" and "emacs".

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-02-03 22:36:26 UTC

i was unaware of the stuff portage has in place ... this has been fixed in latest portage version

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-04 14:16:32 UTC

*** Bug 165276 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***