Bug 531349

Summary: install-info: Success for ./bfd.info.gz
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil>
Component: texinfoAssignee: Jan Görig <jgorig>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: axet, jgorig, pertusus, vcrhonek
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Hardware: powerpc   
OS: Linux   
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bfd.info.gz from binutils-devel-2.19.51.0.14-33.fc12.ppc
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Description Jan Kratochvil 2009-10-27 19:59:45 UTC
Created attachment 366334 [details]
bfd.info.gz from binutils-devel-2.19.51.0.14-33.fc12.ppc

Description of problem:
install-info produces bogus error message + exit code despite it works.
ppc-specific problem.
It produces %post/%preun rpm error message on improperly protected .spec files.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
info-4.13a-7.fc12.ppc

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
/sbin/install-info --info-dir=/usr/share/info ./bfd.info.gz ;echo $?

Actual results:
install-info: Success for ./bfd.info.gz
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Expected results:
0

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 14:27:21 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 Jan Görig 2010-01-11 12:06:52 UTC
Created attachment 382970 [details]
patch

Bad checking for return value of gzseek (signed on i386 and unsigned on ppc). Patch attached.

Comment 3 Jan Görig 2010-01-11 15:05:34 UTC
*** Bug 529535 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Jan Görig 2010-03-08 13:39:25 UTC
Fixed in texinfo-4.13a-9.fc12