Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Re: quiet install-info warnings

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:09:01AM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote:
> install-info: warning: no entries found for `/usr/local/info/gpgrt.info'; nothing deleted
> install-info: menu item `libgpg-error' already exists, for file `gnupg'
> system(/usr/bin/install-info, --info-dir=/usr/local/info, --, /usr/local/info/gpgrt.info) failed: exit(1)
> chromium-59.0.3071.109p0:libgpg-error-1.27->1.27: ok
>
> would adding --quiet to install-info make this go away? i guess it's not
> harmful, but i have to study the message for some time to figure that out.

It would be much nicer to fix those messages.

In some cases, it's just a question of patching the dir entry in the info
file or the texi source.

In other cases, this would require an update to makeinfo, or at least
get the dir parts overhauled, because they're sorely lagging behind.

I don't think hiding the problem is going to make it go away.

With enough nagging, somebody's going to fix it eventually.

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