Bug#196379: marked as done (twm: does not honor $HOME/.menu files)
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--- Begin Message ---
- To: submit@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: menu: User can't remove menu entry with empty $HOME/.menu/package file
- From: Frank Murphy <fjm_maillists@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 16:35:37 +0200
- Message-id: <200306061635.38098.fjm_maillists@yahoo.com>
Package: menu
Subject: menu: User can't remove menu entry with empty $HOME/.menu/package
file
Version: 2.1.8-2
Severity: normal
Tags: sid
I was trying to get rid of some of menu entries I don't want, so I
looked into /usr/share/doc/menu/menu.txt.gz to find out how. Under
section "5.2. Specifying a ``no-menu entry''," the document says to
create an empty file with the package name in $HOME/.menu/pakcage name.
I tried this with the xbase-clients and python2.2 packages, and neither
worked.
This functionality works fine when putting empty files into /etc/menu.
update-menus -v
update-menus[7844]: update-menus run by user -- cannot determine if dpkg
is locking /var/lib/dpkg/lock: assuming there is no lock
update-menus[7844]: Dpkg not locking dpkg status area. Good.
update-menus[7844]: Reading installed packages...
update-menus[7844]: Reading menuentryfiles in /home/frank/.menu/
update-menus[7844]: 0 menu entries found (0 total)
update-menus[7844]: Reading menuentryfiles in /etc/menu/
update-menus[7844]: 0 menu entries found (0 total)
update-menus[7844]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/lib/menu/
update-menus[7844]: 181 menu entries found (181 total)
update-menus[7844]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/share/menu/
update-menus[7844]: 0 menu entries found (181 total)
update-menus[7844]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/share/menu/default/
update-menus[7844]: 3 menu entries found (184 total)
update-menus[7844]: Running menu-methods in /home/frank/.menu-methods/
update-menus[7844]: Running menu-methods in /etc/menu-methods/
update-menus[7844]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/kicker
update-menus[7844]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/kdm
update-menus[7844]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/rxvt
update-menus[7844]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/twm
After the above update and logging out, nothing has changed in the menu.
sudo update-menus -v
update-menus[7944]: Dpkg not locking dpkg status area. Good.
update-menus[7944]: Reading installed packages...
update-menus[7944]: Reading menuentryfiles in /etc/menu/
update-menus[7944]: 0 menu entries found (0 total)
update-menus[7944]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/lib/menu/
update-menus[7944]: 181 menu entries found (181 total)
update-menus[7944]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/share/menu/
update-menus[7944]: 0 menu entries found (181 total)
update-menus[7944]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/share/menu/default/
update-menus[7944]: 3 menu entries found (184 total)
update-menus[7944]: Running menu-methods in /etc/menu-methods/
update-menus[7944]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/kicker
update-menus[7944]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/kdm
update-menus[7944]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/rxvt
update-menus[7944]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/twm`
After this update and logging out, the menu has changed as expected.
Hmm... after looking a bit more, it seems that the user .menu files are
totally ignored.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux polo 2.4.20-powerpc #1 Wed Mar 26 12:47:45 EST 2003 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages menu depends on:
ii dpkg 1.10.10 Package maintenance system for
Deb
ii libc6 2.3.1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
an
ii libgcc1 1:3.3-2 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Closing this bug since I didn't get any reply from the submitter after
my ping about a month ago. If anybody ever reproduces this problem, feel
free to reopen.
Brice
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