On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 09:26 +0100, Martin Pluskal wrote:

Hi as some of you have probably noticed there are some mildly annoying messages when packages which installed info files are being uninstalled - i.e: ... Additional rpm output: install-info: No such file or directory for /usr/share/info/autoconf.info.gz warning: %postun(autoconf-2.69-11.2.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

It is my understanding that this is caused by install-info --delete being called in postun stage, when info file is already gone. This issue has already been reported and discussed [1] but not resolved. I have also noticed that in some packages, issue has been solved/hidden by moving install-info to preun, but [1] indicates that such solution has side effect of info entries being removed on update of package. On the other hand, fedora seems to be currently using same solution - i.e [2] . I have meanwhile updated our wiki [3] - but I have some doubts whether this solution is actually correct.

I would welcome any suggestions or comments (preferably constructive :) ).

I doubt that the concern is very valid; unless the install-info --delete is wrapped in a if [$1 == 0]; as postun as well as preun of the 'package to be removed after upgrade' are both called after post of the 'new version of the package. Wrapping the whole thing into if [$1 == 0] might help this out a bit, BUT it will result in the same cosmetic error if info pages change over time... In general, I'd say install-info --delete should be able to remove a file that no longer exists (postun) and only be executed if the file is no longer there (thus: on an upgrade it is skipeed, but on a complete removal of the package done). This would require the warning to be suppressed though. Cheers, Dominique -- Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger