fileutils-4.1.5 info dir entry problems

[Bob Proulx]

In the latest alpha release of fileutils the info dir entry
documentation has some problems.  When installed with install-info
from texinfo 4.0 it creates 'dir' entries that don't go anywhere.
Additionally they are not install-info --delete'd.

I am not sure what was intended.  They don't seem to belong where they
were.  The simplest thing seemed to be to remove them.  Which was my
fix.  I include the details at the end.

I did not see it there but the NEWS file should include a note for
people that package, such as myself.  Previously the info files were
in fileutils, textutils, sh-utils but now are combined.  Which means
that prior to installing the new coreutils.info you should
install-info --delete fileutils.info and sh-utils.info and
textutils.info to remove the old entries or there will be conflicts.
After a package upgrade installation they are gone and it is too late
to clean up the 'info/dir' files.  This is just one of those
transistions to work through.  I added the above to the preinstall
scripts and everything is fine.

Bob


diff -ru ../fileutils-4.1.5.original/doc/coreutils.texi ./doc/coreutils.texi
--- ../fileutils-4.1.5.original/doc/coreutils.texi      Wed Dec 19 02:44:12 2001
+++ ./doc/coreutils.texi        Mon Jan  7 19:11:18 2002
@@ -24,12 +24,6 @@
 @format
 START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
 * @sc{gnu} Utilities: (coreutils).              @sc{gnu} Utilities.
-* Common options:                                Common options.
-* File permissions:                              Access modes.
-* Date input formats:                            Specifying date strings.
-* Opening the software toolbox:                  The software tools philosophy.
-* GNU Free Documentation License:                The license for this 
documentation.
-
 * basename: (coreutils)basename invocation.     Strip directory and suffix.
 * cat: (coreutils)cat invocation.               Concatenate and write files.
 * chgrp: (coreutils)chgrp invocation.           Change file groups.