Subject: Re: "install-info -remove" before "install-info"??
To: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/21/1999 19:34:29 
On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

: I just stumbled across the following in bsd.pkg.mk:
: 
:         @for f in ${INFO_FILES}; do             \  
:                 ${ECHO} "install-info --info-dir=${PREFIX}/info ${PREFIX}/info/$$f";    \
:                 install-info --remove --info-dir=${PREFIX}/info ${PREFIX}/info/$$f;             \
:                 install-info --info-dir=${PREFIX}/info ${PREFIX}/info/$$f;        \
:         done
: 
: Is this "install-info -remove" really needed? Why?

Prevents duplicate entries, particularly if something was forcibly deleted
or half-installed and then reinstalled.

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)