Re: Sorting out the xdvi.bin problem

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:17:21PM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote:
> Julian Gilbey writes:
>  > I haven't been keeping track of this list for the last couple of
>  > weeks, but I know that this problem keeps rearing its head for
>  > people.  I just noticed it on my machine: the xdvi.bin link is in
>  > manual mode, but /usr/bin/xdvi.bin doesn't actually exist.  Perhaps
>  > the postinst could do something like the following:
>  > 
>  > if [ ! -L /usr/bin/xdvi.bin ]; then
>  >     update-alternatives --auto xdvi.bin
>  > fi
>  > 
> 
> I think this solution is really the best one. We can keep
> update-alternatives. The only drawback is that someone might have
> switched to manual mode on purpose and this would change it back.

That's why the test for the *presence* of xdvi.bin; this would still
be a problem even if they had changed to manual.

   Julian

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