Re: INFOPATH never respected

[Norbert Preining]

Hi

just one word from the Debian maintainer of texinfo/etc (and Ubuntu uses
these packages one-one AFAIR):

On Do, 15 Nov 2012, Andrew J Spano wrote:
> I am using Ubuntu 12.10, unfortunately the Debian texinfo package does  
> not contain the info pages for such crucial utilities as tar, make, or  
> bash. To solve this problem I have downloaded some of the info pages  

?? What the h*** are you talking? texinfo is never shipping these
info pages. THe respective packages should ship them. I don't know
about Ubuntu, but in Debian, the tar info page is in the package
'tar-doc' (not very surprising I must say!). the make info page in
the 'make-doc' package (also not very surprising).

So I guess you misunderstood the concept, just simply *install* the 
necessary documentation packages and be happy?

> I tried setting the INFOPATH variable in my bashrc
>
> export INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:"/home/andrew/info"

That does not update the dir file for general index.

> However, this does not work, I do not know if the usage of the INFOPATH 
> variable has been deprecated, but its value is simply not respected by 
> the info program itself. Online documentation seems to indicate that this 

It is, info finds info pages saved there.

Best wishes

Norbert
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