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Re: point to "info coreutils cmd" instead of "info cmd" in manpage
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: point to "info coreutils cmd" instead of "info cmd" in manpage |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:03:26 +0100 |
Tomas Pospisek <address@hidden> wrote:
> I don't know wheter other systems do some symlinks tricks to achieve the
> expected behaveour, but at least on Debian issuing:
>
> info mv
>
> will give me the _manpage_ of mv, since there is no texinfo mv manual.
> The following however does work.
>
> info coreutils mv
I think what you're seeing is a problem with Debian's install-info.
I saw a Debian bug report about this recently.
We can't do that in general, because some
(like `info coreutils pr') don't work. That takes you
to the `printing text' node.
There have been numerous messages on this latter.