From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JTnBK-0000fH-8q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:56:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA25BE02E0; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:56:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (crowfix.com [216.240.38.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC5BBE02E0 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:56:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 16975 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Feb 2008 23:56:17 -0000 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:56:17 -0800 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir Message-ID: <20080225235617.GA6659@crowfix.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 8596965b-6b6d-4d5c-b81d-7dd7a34dfe2d X-Archives-Hash: df27a94409f2b6d18a3729536bcfd225 My /usr/share/info dir has several different versions of emacs info. In addition to the usual emacs-*.info.gz (1-36), there are two subdirs. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13269 Feb 10 2005 /usr/share/info/emacs-1.info.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14595 Feb 10 2005 /usr/share/info/emacs-36.info.gz These two subdirs have very nearly the same contents as each other, but their emacs files only go to 8. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2600 Dec 1 11:49 /usr/share/info/emacs-22 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72996 Dec 1 11:12 emacs-1.info.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16261 Dec 1 11:12 emacs-8.info.bz2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2712 Dec 7 22:43 /usr/share/info/emacs-23 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73191 Dec 7 22:42 emacs-1.info.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23606 Dec 7 22:42 emacs-8.info.bz2 But the individual subdir files are bigger, are bzipped not gzipped, and the total byte counts come out roughly the same, so I think it is a fair bet that each of the three sets is complete. If I use "info /usr/share/info/emacs-23/dir", I do see the latest emacs info, not some old -21 stuff. The dates are also interesting. The main info dir has three year old files, teh two subdirs are more recent. So the question is, why do I have old emacs in the main info dir and newer emacs info in subdirs which are not easily accessible from the info system, and what do I do to correct this? I am tempted to just manually relocate the files, but it should be unnecessary. This is a ~amd64 system, if that matters. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list