tag #374618 pending thanks nice bot On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 11:45 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > Package: xfce4-panel > Version: 4.2.3-1 > Severity: important > > Hi, > > xfce4 is uninstallable (and partly unbuildable due to uninstallable > B-Ds) on hurd-i386 due to the Depends: on procps for many packages. > > This is of course because you use pkill in postinst to send SIGUSR1 to > xfce-mcs-manager. The problem is that pkill is not available on the > Hurd. > > In order to have a working XFCE4 on the Hurd (it's only desktop > environment which really used work quite well on it), would it be > possible to remove the procps dependency from the xfce4 packages or > (alternatively) replace the pkill call with something involving ps, grep > and kill and dropping it alltogether? > > I'm filing this for xfce4-panel, but it applies to most other XFCE4 > packages as well, AFAICT. >
We have updated our postinst scripts to use only ps/grep/awk/kill so xfce will be available on Hurd. Package will be uploaded soon. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis Perez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]