Bug 581995

Summary:	install-info truncates /usr/share/info/dir to 0 bytes
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Breen Mullins <breen.mullins>
Component:	texinfo	Assignee:	Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	12	CC:	pebolle, pertusus, vcrhonek
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Description Breen Mullins 2010-04-13 19:29:43 UTC

Description of problem:
When yum update grabs an rpm that updates the info database, the dir file is truncated to 0 bytes, and info fails.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
info-4.13a-9.fc12.ppc

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a basic dir file:
sudo cp ~/Downloads/usr/share/info/dir /usr/share/info 
ll /usr/share/info/dir
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 754 2010-04-13 12:25 /usr/share/info/dir

2. Attempt to add a new node:
sudo install-info ./wget.info.gz /usr/share/info/dir


Actual results:
info wget
info: Cannot find node `Top'.

ll /usr/share/info/dir
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 2010-04-13 12:26 /usr/share/info/dir

Expected results:
updated dir file

Additional info:

Comment 1 Paul Bolle 2010-04-26 12:14:03 UTC

Identical "Actual results" for a i686 system running (current) Rawhide. (I haven't investigated whether the other parts of comment #0 are correct for that setup.)

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2010-11-03 17:11:35 UTC

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2010-12-03 15:56:07 UTC

Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
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