gnome-games are unsupported, so spending minimum time here....
removing the menu item removes the temptation for running chess for most 
users..

and if /when this gets resolved it's simple to add back in...

I've checked the configure and I don't see any easy way to remove chess..

Matt

Stephen Browne wrote:
> You are removing the menu entry but we will still ship the binary that
> doesn't work?
>
> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 13:17 +0100, Matt Keenan wrote:
>   
>> glchess is not functional on Solaris, and from what I caen see this is 
>> due to forkpty, missing from
>> Solaris land.
>>
>> As gnome-games are not supported, I've logged a bug in bugzilla, as an 
>> interm solution I am removing
>> glchess from our menu's so that all users don't see the option to run 
>> it, very easy to add it back
>> in when/if this get's resolved.
>>
>> Just requires a change to gnome-games.spec (svn diff below)
>>
>> bugster :  http://monaco.sfbay/detail.jsf?cr=6537569
>> bugzilla : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426538
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>> Index: base-specs/gnome-games.spec
>> ===================================================================
>> --- base-specs/gnome-games.spec (revision 11040)
>> +++ base-specs/gnome-games.spec (working copy)
>> @@ -77,8 +77,8 @@
>>  ## things we just don't want in the package
>>  rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/lib/scrollkeeper
>>  find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type f -name "*.pyo" -exec rm -f {} ';'
>> +rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/applications/glchess.desktop
>>  
>> -
>>  ## install desktop files
>>  
>>  %find_lang %{name}
>> @@ -137,6 +137,9 @@
>>  %config %{_sysconfdir}/sound/events/*
>>  
>>  %changelog
>> +* Thu Apr 05 2007 - matt.keenan at sun.com
>> +- Remove glchess.desktop, until glchess is made functional on Solaris
>> +- Bugzilla : 426538
>>  * Wed Mar 21 2007 - damien.carbery at sun.com
>>  - Bump to 2.18.0.1.
>>  * Tue Mar 13 2007 - damien.carbery at sun.com
>>
>>     
>
>   


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