#!/bin/sh # update-info-dir # create a dir file from all installed info files # Copyright 2009, 2014 Norbert Preining # GPLv2 INFODIR=/usr/share/info set -e # # since user's environment is taken over into root account when sudo-ing # we don't want that one's user LANGUAGE setting changes the messages in # the dir file. Unset LANGUAGE and reload /etc/environment to get # the system wide settings. See bug #536476 unset LANGUAGE unset LANG if [ -r /etc/environment ] ; then . /etc/environment fi if [ -r /etc/default/locale ] ; then . /etc/default/locale fi Help () { echo "\ SYNOPSIS: update-info-dir [-h,--help] [info-directory] (re-)creates the index of available documentation in info format (the file /usr/share/info/dir) which is usually presented by info browsers on startup." exit 0 } if [ "$1" = "-h" ] || [ "$1" = "--help" ]; then Help fi if [ -n "$1" ] ; then INFODIR="$1" fi if [ ! -d "$INFODIR" ] ; then echo "Not a directory: $INFODIR." >&2 exit 1 fi if [ -r "$INFODIR/dir" ] ; then rm -f "$INFODIR/dir.old" cp $INFODIR/dir $INFODIR/dir.old fi # we have to remove the dir file not make install-info being surprised rm -f "$INFODIR/dir" errors=0 find "$INFODIR" -type f | while read file ; do case $file in */dir|*/dir.gz|*/dir.old|*/dir.old.gz|*-[0-9]|*-[0-9].gz|*-[1-9][0-9]|*-[1-9][0-9].gz|*.png|*.jpg) # these files are ignored continue ;; *) install-info "$file" "$INFODIR/dir" || { errors=$((errors+1)) } ;; esac done if [ $errors -gt 0 ] ; then exec >&2 echo echo "Updating the index of info documentation produced $errors errors." fi exit 0 # vim:set expandtab tabstop=2: #