[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions

[Olivier Blin]

Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> writes:

>>>  3. Ensure that you do not have zapata or dpkg installed (rpm -e zapata;
>>> rpm -e dpkg)
>> 
>> dpkg >= 1.16.0.1-3.mga3 should be safe to keep, since I removed
>> /usr/sbin/install-info
>> 
>> It will hit the mirrors in a few minutes.
>
> Cool. Will that work for everything that needs install-info? I thought
> that the one from dpkg was compatible with the one from texinfo but not
> the other way around? If that's the case, then I guess we should use
> alternatives (uggg!)?

The one in dpkg was only a compatibility wrapper to print a warning if
the old install-info path was hardcoded in a package.

-- 
Olivier Blin - blino