If /usr/share/info/dir.gz exists, install-info will look for it when it doesn't find /usr/share/info/dir. This causes severe breakage if /usr/share/info/dir.gz is not a valid info file (e.g. empty) as install-info will get confused and not write anything, leading to the classic "info: Cannot find node `Top'." No idea how /usr/share/info/dir.gz got created, but emerge should rename it to %s.old as with /usr/share/info/dir. Suggestion: --- bin/emerge 2007/01/08 19:15:12 1.1 +++ bin/emerge 2007/01/08 19:17:43 @@ -3297,12 +3297,14 @@ def chk_updated_info_files(root, infodir for inforoot in regen_infodirs: if inforoot=='': continue - try: - os.rename(inforoot+"/dir",inforoot+"/dir.old") - except SystemExit, e: - raise # Needed else can't exit - except: - pass + for suffix in ("", ".gz"): + try: + os.rename("%s/dir%s" % (infodir, suffix), + "%s/dir%s.old" % (infodir, suffix)) + except SystemExit, e: + raise # Needed else can't exit + except: + pass if not os.path.isdir(inforoot): continue
Created attachment 106089 [details, diff] info-install-kill-dir.gz.patch Above as attachment.
note, just so you don't have to check the sources: install-info.c @@ 533: (from sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5) /* Open FILENAME and return the resulting stream pointer. If it doesn't exist, try FILENAME.gz. If that doesn't exist either, call CREATE_CALLBACK (with FILENAME as arg) to create it, if that is non-NULL. If still no luck, fatal error. If we do open it, return the actual name of the file opened in OPENED_FILENAME and the compress program to use to (de)compress it in COMPRESSION_PROGRAM. The compression program is determined by the magic number, not the filename. */ FILE * open_possibly_compressed_file (char *filename, void (*create_callback) (char *), char **opened_filename, char **compression_program, int *is_pipe)
Thanks. This is fixed in svn r5503.
This has been released in 2.1.2_rc4-r8.
