On 05/16/2011 11:29 PM, Evan Broder wrote:
Hi -
Some colleagues of mine at MIT developed a set of tools for
handling this sort of scenario, called config-package-dev. It makes
doing this sort of thing very easy.
Basically, you pick a suffix for the files you're configuring (ours
was .debathena), then install the file with the .debathena suffix
(e.g. the package resulting package would include an
/etc/xdg/menus/application.menu.debathena file).
In the debian/rules file, you set a couple of variables to tell
config-package-dev what to do.
Then at install time, an auto-generated postinst script would divert
/etc/xdg/menus/application.menu ->
/etc/xdg/menus/application.menu.debathena-orig, and create a symlink
from /etc/xdg/menus/application.menu ->
/etc/xdg/menus/application.menu.debathena
There's documentation on how to use config-package-dev at
<http://debathena.mit.edu/config-package-dev/>. The Debathena project
at MIT wants to see other people using config-package-dev, so feel
free to drop us a line at [email protected] if you run into any
problems.
- Evan
Thanks, I'll look into this.
What are my other possibilities to solve this problem?
\r
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:21 PM, rosea grammostola
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I made a custom package to customize the Gnome2 menus. When I install the
package I get the warning:
trying to overwrite '/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu', which is also in
package gnome-menus 0:2.30.0-0ubuntu4
To fix this I was looking into dpkg-divert, but it didn't became clear to me
how this actually works and how I should use it.
The existing applications.menu file (gnome-menu package) should be renamed
to something like applications.menu_bak right?
This is what I have in the preinst file right now:
dpkg-divert --divert /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu_gnome --rename
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
But it gives:
(Reading database ... 141750 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking openstudiomenu (from .../openstudiomenu_0.1-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Adding `local diversion of /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu to
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu_gnome'
dpkg: error processing /tmp/openstudiomenu_0.1-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
(--install):
trying to overwrite '/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu', which is also in
package gnome-menus 0:2.30.0-0ubuntu4
Removing `local diversion of /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu to
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu_gnome'
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/tmp/openstudiomenu_0.1-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
Another thing I would like to know is how to make upgrades to new versions
of the package run ok?
Thanks in advance,
\r
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