Re: texlive should use xdvi alternatives mechanism (was: xdvi of texlive)

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Frank! Hi all!

On Fre, 06 Okt 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> This should indeed be done, and it's easily possible.  That's the diff
> between the installed xdvi script and the source file xdvi-sh.in:

Included in the current svn.

> I guess we only need to s/@final_exec_name@/xdvi.bin/ in that line, and
> add the usual calls to update-alternatives to the maintainer scripts.

Never used alternatives before: Is this ok:

At the end of the tl-base-bin.postinst script (ie in
addons-per-bin/tl-base-bin.postinst.post):
# activate the xdvi.bin alternative
case "$1" in 
  configure|reconfigure)
    update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/xdvi.bin xdvi.bin /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin 30
    ;;
esac

and in  tl-base-bin.prerm.post (ie end of prerm script):
case "$1" in 
  upgrade)
    ;;
  *)
    update-alternatives --remove xdvi.bin /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin
    ;;
esac

Ok like this?

Best wishes

Norbert

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