Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 170010
Global install destroys /usr/share/info/dir
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:14 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: After upgrading to the new global package, /usr/share/info/dir contains only the entry for global. All other entries were discarded. Fortunately, the old dir file was saved as dir.rpmsave... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): global-4.8.7-1.fc4 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install the new global package 2. Examine /usr/share/info/dir 3. Actual Results: The dir file contained only the entry for global. Expected Results: The entry for global should have been added to the existing entries. Additional info:
Yes, a new build as already been made. Previous version didn't do this, I only noticed it when I installed from the repository. There seems to be a difference between FC3 and FC4. In FC3 /usr/share/info/dir is overwritten and the old one saved. In FC4 the file is owned by the info package and the installation fails with a warning.
"rm -f %{_datadir}/info/dir" in your package %install section to be safe. Installation of info files creates that file when superuser is used.