I'm seeing a unique issue with pkg, where Creation FEN (File Event Notification)
is not being sent.
gamin is used by gnome-panel to monitor /usr/share/applications and other
directories. This is the default .desktop directory where applications being
installed place their .desktop file in order for the application to appear
in GNOME menus.
As this dir is monitored changes made here are reflected dynamically in the
gnome-panel menu structure e.g. installation of a new .desktop file.
I've just noticed that when installing SUNWgftp package which does create
gftp.desktop in /usr/share/applications, is not resulting in a Creation Event
being fired, and thus does not appear in the gnome-panel menu dynamically.
See bug : http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10194
Directly accessing the a file in this directory, e.g.
cp /usr/share/applications/gftp.desktop /usr/share/applications/gftp-2.desktop
Does result in a creation event and you end up with two entries in the menu.
pkg uninstall SUNWgftp, does cause a Deletion event to be fired for
gftp.desktop.
So I'm asking does pkg install do something funky to circumvent FEN ? Or
would this be seen as a possible bug in FEN ?
To test FEN, SUNWgamin once built from source contains a very useful testgam
utility. I can forward details on how to use it if required.
cheers
Matt
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