Re: Package update requires modification of config file in users' home directories

2021-03-10 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021, at 10:02 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 7:46 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel > wrote: > > > > On 09.03.2021 00:10, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > > > Is there something I can do to sed out the -qt5 suffix, or should I > > > just bite the bullet, build the u

Re: Package update requires modification of config file in users' home directories

2021-03-09 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 7:46 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > On 09.03.2021 00:10, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > > Is there something I can do to sed out the -qt5 suffix, or should I > > just bite the bullet, build the update and wait for the bug reports to > > come in? > > You cannot modify

Re: Package update requires modification of config file in users' home directories

2021-03-09 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 3/9/21 4:21 PM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: Do all of the DEs we have in Fedora support the same notification mechanisms? I'm not 100% sure, but it's freedesktop.org/D-Bus based, so it's about as standard as it gets these days. (Probably irrelevant, though.) I added ln -sf %{_libdir}/%{na

Re: Package update requires modification of config file in users' home directories

2021-03-09 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 10:27 PM Ian Pilcher wrote: > > On 3/9/21 1:39 PM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > > Well, the first option is still a no-no, as the fixup has to happen in > > the user's home directory. For the second one, I think I'd need to add > > something like "Requires: zenity", which i

Re: Package update requires modification of config file in users' home directories

2021-03-09 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 3/9/21 1:39 PM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: Well, the first option is still a no-no, as the fixup has to happen in the user's home directory. For the second one, I think I'd need to add something like "Requires: zenity", which in turn would pull in other dependencies. I don't believe that it

Re: Package update requires modification of config file in users' home directories

2021-03-09 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 7:28 PM Ian Pilcher wrote: > > On 3/8/21 5:10 PM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > > Is there something I can do to sed out the -qt5 suffix, or should I > > just bite the bullet, build the update and wait for the bug reports to > > come in? > > You could replace the executable

Re: Package update requires modification of config file in users' home directories

2021-03-09 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 3/8/21 5:10 PM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: Is there something I can do to sed out the -qt5 suffix, or should I just bite the bullet, build the update and wait for the bug reports to come in? You could replace the executable with a wrapper script that performs the necessary fixups before cal

Re: Package update requires modification of config file in users' home directories

2021-03-09 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 09.03.2021 00:10, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: Is there something I can do to sed out the -qt5 suffix, or should I just bite the bullet, build the update and wait for the bug reports to come in? You cannot modify files in user home directories. -- Sincerely, Vitaly Zaitsev (vit...@easycodi

Re: Package update requires modification of config file in users' home directories

2021-03-08 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
Hi Kevin, On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 1:26 AM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 01:03:05AM +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote: > > > > I don't think that packagers should *ever* be in the business of > > modifying the content of users' $HOME directories. > > In fact this has happened before in

Re: Package update requires modification of config file in users' home directories

2021-03-08 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 01:03:05AM +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote: > > I don't think that packagers should *ever* be in the business of > modifying the content of users' $HOME directories. In fact this has happened before in the past, leading to: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guid

Re: Package update requires modification of config file in users' home directories

2021-03-08 Thread Kalev Lember
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:10 AM Alexander Ploumistos < alex.ploumis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Upstream has just released a bugfix update for Molsketch and it's the > kind of update that can't wait for the next fedora release. Among the > other fixes, the new version has dropped support for

Re: Package update requires modification of config file in users' home directories

2021-03-08 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
Hello Fabio, On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 1:03 AM Fabio Valentini wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:10 AM Alexander Ploumistos > wrote: > > > > Upstream has just released a bugfix update for Molsketch and it's the > > kind of update that can't wait for the next fedora release. Among the > > other f

Re: Package update requires modification of config file in users' home directories

2021-03-08 Thread Fabio Valentini
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:10 AM Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > > Hello, > > Upstream has just released a bugfix update for Molsketch and it's the > kind of update that can't wait for the next fedora release. Among the > other fixes, the new version has dropped support for Qt4 and with it, > the -qt