Bug 433535

I run "grep '^This is.*produced' /usr/share/info/dir" on F7 and F8
installations and I also immediately got a number of lines like the
above - although in smaller quantities.

Hi,

thanks for report.

I think this is #394191 hangover:

It seems that some packages built against non patched texinfo-4.11 package
produced "This is..." string.

However, even if you update them afterwards to packages built against fixed
texinfo-4.11, those two lines (one with string and second empty) will remain in
/usr/share/info/dir.

When I uninstall affected package (e.g. libgfortran), delete those "entries"
manually and then install package again, they does not appear anymore.

As you said - it's harmless and time will fix the problem.

I am not sure when texinfo-4.11 was patched but "fastjar.info"
lines have to be pretty recent ones.

> ... time will fix the problem.

sed -i 's/^This is.*produced by makeinfo.*from/d' /usr/share/info/dir

in some post scripts would be surely much faster. :-)  That I found
those in F7 and F8 gave me a bit of a pause.  OTOH this is a side-show.

Fine, I'll put it into info post.

Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

texinfo-4.11-6.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9

texinfo-4.11-6.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update texinfo'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-3899

Also need this:

--- texinfo.spec        14 May 2008 09:38:24 -0000      1.54
+++ texinfo.spec        16 May 2008 16:27:07 -0000
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 Source2: texi2pdf.man
 Patch0: texinfo-4.12-zlib.patch
 Requires(post): /sbin/install-info
+Requires(post): sed
 Requires(preun): /sbin/install-info
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 BuildRequires: zlib-devel, ncurses-devel

If you are using sed in %post.

(In reply to comment #3)
> I am not sure when texinfo-4.11 was patched but "fastjar.info"
> lines have to be pretty recent ones.
> 
> > ... time will fix the problem.
> 
> sed -i 's/^This is.*produced by makeinfo.*from/d' /usr/share/info/dir

Is the s/ really right?

In any case the command in the spec seems wrong to me:
sed -i 's/^This is.*produced by makeinfo.*from/d/' /usr/share/info/dir

>> sed -i 's/^This is.*produced by makeinfo.*from/d' /usr/share/info/dir

> Is the s/ really right?

No, that is a typo.  You want to remove lines in question so this should
read:

  sed -i '/^This is.*produced by makeinfo.*from/d' /usr/share/info/dir

In any case comment #3 was only half serious.  Those "extra" lines
are added by various packages so cleaning them up, from time to time,
in one of these like 'texinfo' is not really a fix although will do
(assuming that this particular package is updated from time to time).

The best would be to make install-info more careful with what
is added.  A "hacky" option would be a "wrapper scipt" which first
runs "the real" install-info and follows that up with a cleanup.

In my opinion, these harmless lines (for most users "invisible") are not worth
of writing wrapper script, moving/renaming original binary etc. and I regret
that I was convinced to try remove them:)

texinfo-4.11-7.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9

texinfo-4.11-8.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9

texinfo-4.11-5.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

texinfo-4.11-5.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

texinfo-4.11-8.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.