Re: [Pan-devel] Mandrake RPMs and menus

[John LeMay]

Actually, we went through this about a year ago and the decision was to
not incorporate menu items, icons, and all the "extras" into the package.
Doing so would require maintaining a whole other set of changes to the
spec file that no one was up for then (and I'm still not up for).

Everyone at the time thought it best to allow the official Mandrake
packager build in the Mandrake related extras. I believe if you rpm -e pan
to get rid of the "official", yet older, Mandrake package before
installing the new one the menu items should go away thus preventing
broken menus.

I don't believe anyone is doing this for the other packages (RH, SuSE,
etc) for the same reasons. The idea of having binaries available is to
make it simple to upgrade for more advanced users looking for the latest
and greatest that either don't yet have the skills or don't have the
desire (speed, dasd, etc) to compile their own.

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Gollum wrote:

> I have a request to anyone making Pan RPMs for Mandrake.  (I suppose
> that's currently only John LeMay and perhaps Toby Inkster, but I use
> this forum just in case anyone else does.)
>
> Mandrake have some files in their RPMs that make Pan (and other apps)
> appear in the menus automatically.  They're not in the RPMs on the
> Rebelbase site.  The files are:
>   /usr/lib/menu/pan
>   /usr/share/icons/large/pan.png
>   /usr/share/icons/mini/pan.png
>   /usr/share/icons/pan.png
>
> It would be nice if you could copy those files from an RPM built by
> Mandrake, so the menus don't get messed up each time an official
> Mandrake RPM is upgraded with one from Rebelbase, or vice versa.  Just
> some hours ago I saw a newbie having problems with this on
> alt.os.linux.mandrake.
>
> BTW, maybe the part about Gnome in /usr/lib/menu/pan should be removed
> or replaced with "GTK+", since Gnome is no longer required:
>
> ?package(pan): command="/usr/bin/pan" needs="X11" icon="pan.png" \
> section="Networking/News" title="Pan" \
> longtitle="Pan Usenet Newsreader for Gnome"
>
>
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