[csw-maintainers] CSWautogen and texinfo sbin/mkdirentries

[Peter FELECAN]

Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

> Am 23.03.2009 um 09:26 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
>> CSWtexinfo is in GAR, isn't it? In this case whats the causal link
>> between that and this? Maybe the custom script should not be in
>> CSWtexinfo --- it's a helper for OpenCSW.
>
> Programs dropping .info-files in the directory for texinfo needs to
> register these pages in the texinfo startpage. This can either be
> done on a per-package basis with cswclassutils (I already filed
> a feature request in cswclassutils) which is also the best solution
> or by calling the custom-script from texinfo "mkdirentries" which
> walks through all nodes and builds this startpage. As there are
> already some (don't know how many) packages using this mechanism
> I rather reinstate the old behaviour until all other packages have
> been updated.

All this is true but mkdirentries is not a script supplied by the
upstream project. That cswclassutils will support this is the best
approach, for the packages "garified". For the non "garified" packages,
a dependency on a package supplying mkdirentries seems more adequate (it
should depend on CSWtexinfo). Anyhow, your solution, to include the
mkdirentries script in CSWtexinfo is a good temporary solution.

-- 
Peter