Re: Status of install-info

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?Nicolas_Fran=E7ois?= <address@hidden>,
>         address@hidden,  address@hidden,
>         Karl Berry <address@hidden>,  Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,
>         Joey Hess <address@hidden>,  Norbert Preining <address@hidden>
> From: Ian Zimmerman <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:14:36 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> So, if I just process every (appropriately named) file in the directory,
> I'll end up with duplicate entries.

My failing memory suggests that install-info removes duplicate
entries.  Am I right (I don't have time to look in the code right
now)?

> This can be avoided with a search data structure like a balanced
> tree or hash table, but that seems _really_ overkill.  OTOH I can't
> just ignore symlinks, they could point somewhere else
> (e.g. /usr/share/<package>) and then I'd miss their entries.
> Suggestions?

How about if you ignore only those symlinks whose targets are in the
same directory?