Re: Bug in cdd-update-menus
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Cosimo Alfarano wrote:
> among the paramenters of update-menus, there is one that do not read
> /usr/lib/menu stuff, but only ~/.menu/, I do not know if it does what we
> want, I think so.
>
> update-menus --nodefaultdirs --menufiledir ~/.menu/
>
> should update only menus in ~/.menu, try -v for verbose output.
>
> I cannot test it now, but it quicker then the simply "update-menus".
Hopefully this works nicely with all WMs. BTW, the Gnome menu seems
to remain untouched by update-menus (I guess KDE works - why should it
have trown errors else).
> A temporary (the quickest) solution is surely use /bin/su.
> Could you do it in postinst instead of in cdd-update-menus?
>
> you could do something like:
> --------
> source /etc/cdd/cdd.conf
> source /etc/cdd/men/med.conf # if present
> for ROLE in `getCDDRoleList med`; do
> for CDDUSER in `getUsersInRole med ${ROLE}`; do
> su ${CDDUSER} -c "update-menus"
> done
> done
> --------
>
> it should work, updateing menus for any user covering a role in med CDD.
> anyway, it's the same code from updateCDD in share/cdd/cdd-update-menus
>
> obviously cdd.conf and med.conf have to be present before the code
> execution.
Sure.
I'm unsure whether we should provide such a "do-the-dirty-work-script"
in /usr/share/cdd/cdd-update-user-menus or whether I should put it into
med-common. The rationale for putting this into cdd-common is:
- I'm using the post{inst,rm} scripts from cdd-dev templates and
thus it should know the scripts which are called from here.
- Other CDDs might like to use this trick for the time beeing
as well. (Any comments here????)
On the other hand /etc/cdd/med/med.conf could define a "postinst-helper"
script which could be run from a general post{inst,rm} script and might
be void for other CDDs.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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