+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1192538 +++

Description of problem:

I noticed that Info is not reading all of the /usr/share/info content. If I run `info', for example, I get Info menus corresponding to some of the info files present in /usr/share/info, but not all of them (eg, I can't see a menu for emacs, even though the file emacs.info.gz exists there). The command "info emacs" works, but even Emacs' built-in info reader can't find "Emacs" in the root info directory that comes up in the buffer.

Note that INFOPATH is not defined on this machine.

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

texinfo 5.0 

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. ls /usr/share/info
2. info
3. see that the menu items in the Info screen do not include many of the info files present in /usr/share/info

Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

--- Additional comment from RHEL Product and Program Management on 2015-02-13 11:17:48 EST ---

Since this bug report was entered in bugzilla, the release flag has been
set to ? to ensure that it is properly evaluated for this release.

--- Additional comment from Vitezslav Crhonek on 2015-02-16 08:58:44 EST ---

Info doesn't read /usr/share/info content. When invoked without arguments, it shows content of /usr/share/info/dir file (show top-level dir menu).

/sbin/install-info is used to update info/dir entries and packages have to call this command in post install scripts in order to make changes in the menu.

E.g.
# /sbin/install-info /usr/share/info/emacs.info.gz /usr/share/info/dir
adds 
* Emacs: (emacs).               The extensible self-documenting text editor.
entry into the menu.

The problem is in emacs-common post install script. It calls install-info with
/usr/share/info/efaq-w32.info.gz
which doesn't exist and the update of /usr/share/info/dir fails bacause of it.

--- Additional comment from Vitezslav Crhonek on 2015-02-16 08:59:58 EST ---

Needs to be fixed in Fedora too.