dpkg-divert

[rosea.grammostola]

On 05/16/2011 11:29 PM, Evan Broder wrote:
> Hi -
>     Some colleagues of mine at MIT developed a set of tools for
> handling this sort of scenario, called config-package-dev. It makes
> doing this sort of thing very easy.
>
> Basically, you pick a suffix for the files you're configuring (ours
> was .debathena), then install the file with the .debathena suffix
> (e.g. the package resulting package would include an
> /etc/xdg/menus/application.menu.debathena file).
>
> In the debian/rules file, you set a couple of variables to tell
> config-package-dev what to do.
>
> Then at install time, an auto-generated postinst script would divert
> /etc/xdg/menus/application.menu ->
> /etc/xdg/menus/application.menu.debathena-orig, and create a symlink
> from /etc/xdg/menus/application.menu ->
> /etc/xdg/menus/application.menu.debathena
>
> There's documentation on how to use config-package-dev at
> <http://debathena.mit.edu/config-package-dev/>. The Debathena project
> at MIT wants to see other people using config-package-dev, so feel
> free to drop us a line at debathena at mit.edu if you run into any
> problems.
>
> - Evan


Thanks, I'll look into this.

What are my other possibilities to solve this problem?

\r
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:21 PM, rosea grammostola
> <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I made a custom package to customize the Gnome2 menus. When I install the
>> package I get the warning:
>>   trying to overwrite '/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu', which is also in
>> package gnome-menus 0:2.30.0-0ubuntu4
>>
>> To fix this I was looking into dpkg-divert, but it didn't became clear to me
>> how this actually works and how I should use it.
>>
>> The existing applications.menu file (gnome-menu package) should be renamed
>> to something like applications.menu_bak right?
>>
>> This is what I have in the preinst file right now:
>>
>> dpkg-divert --divert /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu_gnome --rename
>> /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
>>
>> But it gives:
>>
>> (Reading database ... 141750 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Unpacking openstudiomenu (from .../openstudiomenu_0.1-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
>> Adding `local diversion of /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu to
>> /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu_gnome'
>> dpkg: error processing /tmp/openstudiomenu_0.1-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
>> (--install):
>>   trying to overwrite '/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu', which is also in
>> package gnome-menus 0:2.30.0-0ubuntu4
>> Removing `local diversion of /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu to
>> /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu_gnome'
>> Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
>> Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
>> Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
>> Processing triggers for python-support ...
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>   /tmp/openstudiomenu_0.1-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
>>
>>
>> Another thing I would like to know is how to make upgrades to new versions
>> of the package run ok?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> \r
>>
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