Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-07 Thread joost witteveen
> > Sudhakar Chandrasekharan: > > That worked. As you said, there *should* be another way to specify > > local packages. Though I can understand why update-menus does not add > > an item if the package is not installed. > > My preference is that a new test be added (or it might already exist, f

Re: Were to put non-debian files (was: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?)

1997-06-06 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Scott K. Ellis wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > Another question. I know this might be a FAQ. > > > > If I want to install a package that is not part of the Debian > > distribution, how do I go about it? I think there are two scenarios > > here - > > > > * foo.tar.

Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-06 Thread Joey Hess
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan: > That worked. As you said, there *should* be another way to specify > local packages. Though I can understand why update-menus does not add > an item if the package is not installed. My preference is that a new test be added (or it might already exist, for all I know),

Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-06 Thread joost witteveen
> 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

Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-06 Thread Brad Bell
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 retrac

Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-06 Thread Brad Bell
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Sudhakar Chandrasekharan: > > > I have spent the last couple of hours trying to customize my fvwm2 > > > setup. I basically want to add stuff to the default menus that comes > > > with Debian. I tried the following - > > >

Were to put non-debian files (was: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?)

1997-06-06 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > Another question. I know this might be a FAQ. > > If I want to install a package that is not part of the Debian > distribution, how do I go about it? I think there are two scenarios > here - > > * foo.tar

Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-06 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Joey Hess wrote: > Sudhakar Chandrasekharan: > > I have spent the last couple of hours trying to customize my fvwm2 > > setup. I basically want to add stuff to the default menus that comes > > with Debian. I tried the following - > > > > * Moved /usr/lib/menu/default/vim to /etc/menu/vim and ran

Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-06 Thread Joey Hess
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan: > I have spent the last couple of hours trying to customize my fvwm2 > setup. I basically want to add stuff to the default menus that comes > with Debian. I tried the following - > > * Moved /usr/lib/menu/default/vim to /etc/menu/vim and ran > update-menus. Then quit X

[Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-06 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I have spent the last couple of hours trying to customize my fvwm2 setup. I basically want to add stuff to the default menus that comes with Debian. I tried the following - * Moved /usr/lib/menu/default/vim to /etc/menu/vim and ran update-menus. Then quit X and restarted it. Don't find vim und