Re: Is it a bug to call /usr/bin/X11/foo in the postinst?
In article <[🔎] E0yLUQO-0000Ti-00@tick.virginia.edu> you wrote:
> USING /usr/X11R6/bin IN /etc/alternatives IS BROKEN:
Why? The behaviour you showed below seems perfectly sensible to me.
> Consider an X program called foo -- with several possible alternative
> implementations: foo1, foo2, etc. -- and observe what happens when
> /usr/X11R6/bin/foo is used as the pathname for update-alternatives:
> # update-alternatives --install /usr/X11R6/bin/foo foo \
> /usr/X11R6/bin/foo1 20
> Checking available versions of foo, updating links in /etc/alternatives ...
> (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see `man ln'.)
> Updating foo (/usr/X11R6/bin/foo) to point to /usr/X11R6/bin/foo1.
> But when foo moves to X11R7, the alternatives link does not follow (unless
> the priority of the link is increased, which will cause other problems):
It shouldn't. In fact, if all packages providing that alternative were now
X11R7, that alternative should be removed.
> # update-alternatives --install /usr/X11R7/bin/foo foo \
> /usr/X11R7/bin/foo1 20
> Checking available versions of foo, updating links in /etc/alternatives ...
> (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see `man ln'.)
> Renaming foo link from /usr/X11R6/bin/foo to /usr/X11R7/bin/foo.
> Leaving foo (/usr/X11R7/bin/foo) pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin/foo1.
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