Re: misc/50117: MKREPRO: /usr/share/info/dir problem

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/50117; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: misc/50117: MKREPRO: /usr/share/info/dir problem
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 21:44:15 +0200

 On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 03:45:00PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >  It may be deeper (or shallower) than that; the /usr/share/info/dir
 >  files I have are sorted within categories. Only the order of the
 >  categories differs. So it might be sufficient to arm install-info with
 >  an ordering for categories. Or to seed the file with dummy entries in
 >  known categories up front, and remove them at the end.
 
 I see the following categories in my /usr/share/info/dir file:
 
 Administration
 Editors
 GNU Gettext Utilities
 GNU Packages
 GNU packages
 Individual utilities
 Miscellaneous
 Programming
 Security
 Software development
 Texinfo documentation system
 Text creation and manipulation
 Typesetting
 
 I don't see an option for install-info to add a category (without a
 file), so we probably have to add them manually.
 
 I just did manual tests: If a line 'Editor' exists, install-info run
 on vi.info adds it below that. So one possible solution would be to
 add the lines mentioned above (in any order, I sorted them).
  Thomas