rm misbehavior

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 12:29 PM Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 at 17:08, Keith via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>> If you have it installed, the apt-file program can tell you what
>> packages from the repos have info pages included.
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>> $ apt-file --package-only search '.info.gz'
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> Thank you. I have 492 packages listed using the above command.
>
> I think I have to activate them using the install-info command.
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> For example, how would I tell info about the info pages provided for bash-doc?
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> Gene: Thanks for the information on the "pinfo" command.

In the old days, there used to be a cron job that added man pages to
the database for searching. It used to run once a day looking for new
pages to add.

I don't know what is done nowadays with man pages. I don't know if
info pages do the same. You might look for a systemd timer that
triggers man page and info page updates.

I think a separate cron job or systemd timer is needed for software
that is manually installed. An Ubuntu package likely has something in
place to update the pages. But I don't think the same is true of
software in general, like stuff you can find on a forge site like
GitHub or GitLab.

Jeff