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Re: attn gzip and info maintainer


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:09:54PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Upgrading to coreutils-6.9 breaks info, as it tries to invoke gunzip.exe.
>>  This should be fixed in info to just invoke gunzip, since in gzip 1.3.9,
>> gunzip is merely a symlink (and the new coreutils no longer adds implicit
>> and confusing .exe extensions to symlinks).
> 
> Are you saying that info uses coreutils to start gunzip somehow?


I think what Eric is saying is that the installation of coreutils-6.9 now
goes around and alters symbolic links of all packages to eliminate the
".exe" suffix.  So if some package explicitly refers to that suffix, that
will cause a problem.


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