> On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Brad Bell wrote: > > > and put it in /etc/menu. anything that starts with 'local' is installed, > > regardless of what debian packages are installed. this is an inadequately > > documented feature of menu (buried in a changelog file... hmpth :P ) > > whoops! i guess i'll have to retract this statement-- it is indeed in the > new docs! sorry--
Well, if that's true, I'll have to rewrite the docs: it doesn't work for new-format menuentry files (and the ones in /usr/lib/menu/default are new-format). In menu_1.4-1 (not released yet) you will be able (for new-format menuentries) to do something like: ?package(local.vim):.... But unfortunately, this doesn't work in 1.3 (I'd consider that a bug). For the old-format menuentries (the ones that don't start with a "?" on the first colum), update-menus looks at the filename to decide whether to include that menuentry. For the new-format menuentries, update-menus looks at the "?package(...)" stuff in the menuentry file itself, and _not_ at the filename any more. The new (1.4) README will have this paragraph: > ************************ > * (User-) Configuring the menu's > > A user can specify her/his own menu entries in the ~/.menu directory. > The files can have any name you want, and should start with eighter: > ?package(installed-package): > or, if it's something that isn't "debian-officially" installed, with > ?package(local.mystuff): > Any "package" that starts with "local." is considered installed. > (due to a bug in menu-1.3 this didn't work then). > > If your using old format menuentryfiles should have names of > installed packages, or "local.name", as update-menus assumes any > "package" who's name starts with "local" is installed. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .