Bug 995225

Summary: automake.info fedora texinfo policy
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Deleted Account <juanmabcmail>
Component: automakeAssignee: Pavel Raiskup <praiskup>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: juanmabcmail, phracek, praiskup
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Description Flags
working $info tw while installing /usr/share/info/tw.info.gz (note pre,post)
none
List of packages which looks like they install '*.gz' info files. none

Description Deleted Account 2013-08-08 19:13:43 UTC 
Description of problem:
into automake sends to the man page

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
long standing term bug, current is f19

How reproducible:
allways

Steps to Reproduce:
1. info automake
2.
3.

Actual results:
send to man page on info viewer

Expected results:
send to info manual

Additional info:
the .info is ther as shown and works with $ info automake.info

suspecting a texinfo info(dir) index unhandled issue:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines :

...

Texinfo

The GNU project and many other programs use the texinfo file format for much of its documentation. These info files are usually located in /usr/share/info/. When installing or removing a package, install-info from the info package takes care of adding the newly installed files to the main info index and removing them again on deinstallation.

Requires(post): info
Requires(preun): info
...
%post
/sbin/install-info %{_infodir}/%{name}.info %{_infodir}/dir || :

%preun
if [ $1 = 0 ] ; then
  /sbin/install-info --delete %{_infodir}/%{name}.info %{_infodir}/dir || :
fi
These two scriptlets tell install-info to add entries for the info pages to the main index file on installation and remove them at erase time. The "|| :" in this case prevents failures that would typically affect systems that have been configured not to install any %doc files, or have read-only mounted, %_netsharedpath /usr/share.

...

automake14 seems to be on the info(dir) index
Comment 1 Pavel Raiskup 2013-08-09 06:37:50 UTC 
Juan, this works for me.  What exactly happens on your system when you install
the automake package?  Do you observe errors?  What is the proposed fix?

> The "|| :" in this case prevents failures that would typically affect
> systems that have been configured not to install any %doc files, or have
> read-only mounted, %_netsharedpath /usr/share.

What can we do with that ^^^ cases?

Thanks, Pavel
Comment 2 Deleted Account 2013-08-09 11:30:44 UTC 
Created attachment 784794 [details]
working $info tw while installing /usr/share/info/tw.info.gz (note pre,post)

First, to make the context clear:
$ rpm -q automake
automake-1.13.4-1.fc19.noarch

automake.spec:
 ...
 86 %post
 87 /sbin/install-info %{_infodir}/automake.info.gz %{_infodir}/dir || :
 88 
 89 %preun
 90 if [ $1 = 0 ]; then
 91     /sbin/install-info --delete %{_infodir}/automake.info.gz %{_infodir}/dir || :
 92 fi
 ...

Please, note that this scheme adds a .gz that is not in the policy:
***
%post
/sbin/install-info %{_infodir}/%{name}.info %{_infodir}/dir || :

%preun
if [ $1 = 0 ] ; then
  /sbin/install-info --delete %{_infodir}/%{name}.info %{_infodir}/dir || :
fi
***
and that i think, the .gz is handled at another level, hence following strictly the policy "just works" for the info(dir), while installs a .gz .

About the read-only cases, the policy says and handles that cases, following the configuration read-only, assuming "user" knows/wants that, no issue there. (My config is not read-only).

I never saw an error at automake install.

For instance i attach a tw.spec that works if that helps.

Please, take into account the goal is to make "$ info automake" work, as probably some users don't know, whatever, ... that "$ info automake.info" works, and anyway that is a workaround, :).
Comment 3 Pavel Raiskup 2013-08-09 12:03:39 UTC 
Created attachment 784815 [details]
List of packages which looks like they install '*.gz' info files.

Thanks for your reply.  As there are a lot more packages installing '*gz'
files, this seems to be problem of your install-info program.  On my
f17/f18/f19 boxes, everything goes fine with this way of installation.

Could you please check whether some of the packages inside the attached list
works for you?

Possibly, could you give us an architecture and more info?  Because I'm not
able to reproduce this.

TIA, Pavel
Comment 4 Deleted Account 2013-08-09 12:42:36 UTC 
This is an unmodified f19 i686 box:
$ uname -a
Linux laptophost 3.10.4-300.fc19.i686 #1 SMP Tue Jul 30 12:03:53 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

install-info is plain:
$ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/install-info
info-5.1-1.fc19.i686

info coreutils works
info cvs works
...
i've been using info autoconf, info configure, ... for long time (releases).

$ info --location autoconf
/usr/share/info/autoconf.info.gz
$ info --location automake
*manpages*

$ rpm -qf /usr/share/info/autoconf.info.gz 
autoconf-2.69-10.fc19.noarch
$ rpm -qf /usr/share/info/automake.info.gz 
automake-1.13.4-1.fc19.noarch

$ rpm -qf /usr/share/man/man1/autoconf.1.gz
autoconf-2.69-10.fc19.noarch
$ rpm -qf /usr/share/man/man1/automake.1.gz
automake-1.13.4-1.fc19.noarch

$ rpm -ql autoconf
/usr/bin/autoconf
/usr/bin/autoheader
/usr/bin/autom4te
/usr/bin/autoreconf
/usr/bin/autoscan
/usr/bin/autoupdate
/usr/bin/ifnames
/usr/share/autoconf
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/C4che.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Channels.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/General.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Getopt.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Request.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/XFile.pm
/usr/share/autoconf/INSTALL
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoconf.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoconf.m4f
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoheader.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoscan.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autotest.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoupdate.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/c.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/erlang.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/fortran.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/functions.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/general.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/go.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/headers.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/lang.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/libs.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/oldnames.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/programs.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/specific.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/status.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/types.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autom4te.cfg
/usr/share/autoconf/autoscan
/usr/share/autoconf/autoscan/autoscan.list
/usr/share/autoconf/autotest
/usr/share/autoconf/autotest/autotest.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autotest/autotest.m4f
/usr/share/autoconf/autotest/general.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/autotest/specific.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/foreach.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/m4sh.m4f
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4f
/usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/version.m4
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/COPYING.EXCEPTION
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/COPYINGv3
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/README
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/autoconf-2.69/TODO
/usr/share/emacs
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/autoconf-mode.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/autoconf-mode.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/autotest-mode.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/autotest-mode.elc
/usr/share/info/autoconf.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/autoconf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/autoheader.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/autom4te.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/autoreconf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/autoscan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/autoupdate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/config.guess.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/config.sub.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ifnames.1.gz

$ rpm -ql automake
/usr/bin/aclocal
/usr/bin/aclocal-1.13
/usr/bin/automake
/usr/bin/automake-1.13
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/amversion.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/ar-lib.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/as.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/auxdir.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/cond-if.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/cond.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/depend.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/depout.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/dmalloc.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/extra-recurs.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/gcj.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/init.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/install-sh.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/internal
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/internal/ac-config-macro-dirs.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/lead-dot.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/lex.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/lispdir.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/maintainer.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/make.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/minuso.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/missing.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/mkdirp.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/obsolete.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/options.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/python.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/runlog.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/sanity.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/silent.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/strip.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/substnot.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/tar.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/upc.m4
/usr/share/aclocal-1.13/vala.m4
/usr/share/automake-1.13
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/Channels.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/Condition.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/Config.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/Configure_ac.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/DisjConditions.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/FileUtils.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/General.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/Getopt.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/Item.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/ItemDef.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/Location.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/Options.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/Rule.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/RuleDef.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/VarDef.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/Variable.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/Version.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/Wrap.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/Automake/XFile.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.13/COPYING
/usr/share/automake-1.13/INSTALL
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/check.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/check2.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/clean-hdr.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/clean.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/compile.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/configure.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/data.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/dejagnu.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/depend.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/depend2.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/distdir.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/footer.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/header-vars.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/header.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/inst-vars.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/install.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/java.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/lang-compile.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/lex.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/library.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/libs.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/libtool.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/lisp.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/ltlib.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/ltlibrary.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/mans-vars.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/mans.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/program.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/progs.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/python.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/remake-hdr.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/scripts.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/subdirs.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/tags.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/texi-vers.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/texibuild.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/texinfos.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/vala.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/am/yacc.am
/usr/share/automake-1.13/ar-lib
/usr/share/automake-1.13/compile
/usr/share/automake-1.13/config.guess
/usr/share/automake-1.13/config.sub
/usr/share/automake-1.13/depcomp
/usr/share/automake-1.13/install-sh
/usr/share/automake-1.13/mdate-sh
/usr/share/automake-1.13/missing
/usr/share/automake-1.13/mkinstalldirs
/usr/share/automake-1.13/py-compile
/usr/share/automake-1.13/tap-driver.pl
/usr/share/automake-1.13/tap-driver.sh
/usr/share/automake-1.13/test-driver
/usr/share/automake-1.13/texinfo.tex
/usr/share/automake-1.13/ylwrap
/usr/share/doc/automake-1.13.4
/usr/share/doc/automake-1.13.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/automake-1.13.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/automake-1.13.4/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/automake-1.13.4/README
/usr/share/doc/automake-1.13.4/README.aclocal
/usr/share/doc/automake-1.13.4/README.multilib
/usr/share/doc/automake-1.13.4/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/automake-1.13.4/amhello-1.0.tar.gz
/usr/share/info/automake-history.info.gz
/usr/share/info/automake.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/automake.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/automake.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/aclocal-1.13.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/aclocal.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/automake-1.13.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/automake.1.gz

Sometimes environment of own developer gets "corrupted" by builds, sometimes environment of submitter ... ;). I suggest to try on a live/fresh media/install, i'm asking for third views on #fedora-devel and #fedora-qa.
Comment 5 Deleted Account 2013-08-09 13:49:30 UTC 
Manual intervention works, *with a previous --delete*.

# install-info --delete /usr/share/info/automake.info.gz /usr/share/info/dir
# install-info /usr/share/info/automake.info /usr/share/info/dir
$ info --location automake
/usr/share/info/automake.info.gz

# install-info --delete /usr/share/info/automake.info /usr/share/info/dir
# install-info /usr/share/info/automake.info.gz /usr/share/info/dir
$ info --location automake
/usr/share/info/automake.info.gz
Comment 6 Deleted Account 2013-08-09 14:34:52 UTC 
manually
# install-info --delete /usr/share/info/automake.info.gz /usr/share/info/dir
# yum reinstall automake
adds the entry correctly.
So this could be an stale entry on my info(dir) over the years.

Closed.