Bug 92252 – gawk does not install with --excludedocs

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Bug 92252 - gawk does not install with --excludedocs

Summary:	gawk does not install with --excludedocs

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	gawk (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Florian La Roche
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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Reported:	2003-06-04 02:29 EDT by Tim Potter
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:54 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-06-04 06:32:04 EDT
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Description Tim Potter 2003-06-04 02:29:23 EDT

Description of problem:

gawk does not install with --excludedocs

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

gawk-3.1.1-9.i386.rpm and gawk-3.1.1-4.i386.rpm

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -i --excludedocs gawk-3.1.1-9.i386.rpm
    
Actual results:

install-info: No such file or directory for /usr/info/gawk.info.gz
error: execution of %post scriptlet from gawk-3.1.1-9 failed, exit status 1

Expected results:

Installs correctly with no errors.

Comment 1 Tim Potter 2003-06-04 02:30:59 EDT

Here's a patch:

--- SPECS/gawk.spec.orig        2003-06-04 16:19:47.000000000 +1000
+++ SPECS/gawk.spec     2003-06-04 16:21:41.000000000 +1000
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
  
 %post
-/sbin/install-info %{_infodir}/gawk.info.gz %{_infodir}/dir
+[ -f %{_infodir}/gawk.info.gz ] && \
+       /sbin/install-info %{_infodir}/gawk.info.gz %{_infodir}/dir || :
  
 %preun
 if [ $1 = 0 ]; then

Comment 2 Florian La Roche 2003-06-04 06:32:04 EDT

Fixed in our internal cvs tree, but I will not immediately build a new rpm
with this.

thanks for the bug-report,

Florian La Roche

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