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From: Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: make install-info error messages
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:40:39 -0400
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To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
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Achim,

thanks for the reply.

here's the install-info version.  (i'm afraid i wasn't aware that
install-info was a local utility; i assumed it was part of the build
system for org or ...)
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bash greg-minshalls-mbp: {1057} install-info --version
Debian install-info 1.10.21.  Copyright (C) 1994,1995
Ian Jackson.  This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence
version 2 or later for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty.
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cheers, Greg Minshall
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>> install-info(doc/org): replacing existing dir entry for `org'
>> cp: /var/backups/infodir.bak: Permission denied
>> install-info(doc/org): couldn't backup /Users/minshall/usr/share/info/dir in /var/backups/infodir.bak: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> What does 'install-info --version' say?  This is most certainly not GNU
> install-info or there's a wrapper around it.  In any case there should
> probably be a switch to skip the backup for non-administrative users or
> another version of install-info (try ginstall-info, perhaps) that
> doesn't try to work with system files.