Re: dpkg bug?

[David Perkinson]

>Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:06:32 -0400
>From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
>Cc: address@hidden
>
>    I got the following error message when running fink's dselect on my
>    iMac.  When I ran 'install-info --help', as suggested by the eror
>    message, I noticed that --info-dir=DIR is an option but not --infodir.
>
>There are two different install-info programs, the one that comes with
>Debian and the one that comes with Texinfo.  Perhaps the Debian one
>(/usr/bin/install-info maybe?) will work.
>
>As you surmise, it would seem that just replacing --infodir with
>--infodir should also work, but I don't know how to do that within a
>Debian package, since I don't use Debian.  I guess you could always
>write a little shell script.

I wrote a little shell script which replaces --infodir with --info-dir
when install-info is called, and it worked like a charm.  Thanks for
the advice.

Dave

>
>Meanwhile, I'll add --infodir as an alias for --info-dir in the next
>release, but that won't do you any good right now :(.
>
>Sorry I can't help more.
>
>karl
>