Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 105697
grep info files are missing
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:57:52 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Many grep 'info' files (at a minimum 'grep.info-1.gz') are missing from the grep-2.5.1-1 .rpm distribution. Effectively, there are no 'info' files for grep on RH 7.3. They are present in grep-2.5.1-7, but this cannot be installed on RH 7.3 because of dependencies with a later version of GLIBC. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grep-2.5.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run the following command at the shell prompt: info grep 2. This fails because the top-level grep 'info' file cannot find files that it references. Actual Results: Instead, the manual page for grep is displayed. Expected Results: The top-level info page for grep should be displayed. Additional info:
This was fixed in Red Hat Linux 8.0 (the release before last).
OK. Thanks. I retrieved grep-2.5.1-4 from Red Hat Network. It installs and resolves the problem. Previously, RHN had only indicated grep-2.5.1-1 (RH 7.3) and grep-2.5.1-7 (RH 9) as being available. When I looked explicitly for the grep RPM in the RH 8 release, I was able to find it.