Bug 88795

Summary: `info command' doesn't work
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: David Nečas <yeti>
Component: coreutilsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description David Nečas 2003-04-14 09:43:11 UTC
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Description of problem:
All manual pages of former fileutils, textutils, ... state (replace FOO with a
program name -- sort, join, etc.):

[CITE]
The full documentation for FOO is maintained as a Texinfo manual.   If
the  info  and  FOO  programs are properly installed at your site, the
command

      info FOO

should give you access to the complete manual.
[/CITE]

However, `info FOO' only shows the manual page again, one has to do `info
coreutils' and find it there.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-4.5.3-19

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man sort
2. info sort



Additional info:
Please don't `fix' it by changing the man pages, make `info sort' work as it
used to work, instead.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2003-04-24 12:30:19 UTC
In a fresh installation of Red Hat Linux 9, 'info sort' works for me.  Is this
an upgrade?  From which release?

Comment 2 David Nečas 2003-04-24 13:27:30 UTC
It was an upgrade from 8.0 (upgraded from 7.3. upgraded from 7.2, etc. ... 6.0).

However, I looked at info.dir state (things from textutils and shutils were
simply missing there) and coreutils pre- and postinstall scriptlets, and came to
conclusion

rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs coreutils-4.5.3-19.i386.rpm 

must fix it. Indeed, it fixed it.

So it's probably really an upgrade problem -- and once it works I'm no longer
able to reproduce it.


Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2003-04-29 11:17:42 UTC
Sounds very similar to 88288.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88288 ***

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:52:40 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.