[Slackbuilds-users] info files on submitted packages

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 01:07:58PM +0300, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 05:47:28AM -0400, xgizzmo at slackbuilds.org wrote:
> > On Saturday 29 August 2009 02:08:44 Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
> > > This could also be added into the info part of the SlackBuild eg.
> > > # Compress info pages and remove the package's dir file
> > > # If no info pages are installed by the software, don't leave this in
> > > # the script
> > > rm -f $PKG/usr/info/dir
> > > gzip -9 $PKG/usr/info/*.info*
> > > install-info /usr/info/$PKGNAM.info /usr/info/dir 2> /dev/null
> > > 
> > > instead of the doinst.sh script
> > > 
> > 
> > That will put the the information in the build system which may 
> > or may not be the system you are installing the package on.
> > 
> > --dsomero
> 
> Oh right. /usr/info/dir can't/shouldn't be altered from the build
> script. I guess the only way would be to add
> install-info /usr/info/$PRGNAM.info /usr/info/dir 2> /dev/null
> to the doinst.sh.
> But even then, it can't work automatically. $PRGNAM has to be replaced
> with the actual name of the file(s)
> 

And since the info files are normally gzipped in the SlackBuild, it
should be eg. for msmtp:
install-info /usr/info/msmtp.info.gz /usr/info/dir 2> /dev/null

-- 
Greg