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著者: Edward Bartolo
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To: Rainer Weikusat
CC: dng
題目: Re: [DNG] netman-autostart_0.1.1
Hi Rainer, Aitor and All,

I edited the netman-gui.postinst shell code to create a link instead
of having two identical launchers in different locations as suggested
by Rainer. The latest sources are already pushed to git.devuan.org.

Edward

On 06/01/2016, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
> Hi Rainer, Aitor and All,
>
> netman-gui.postinst now is debugged to behave properly when
> dpkg-reconfigure is used on netman-gui.
>
> sed is still adding an unneccessary leading space in lines Exec= and
> Comment= in both .desktop files.
>
> I was suggested to drop one of the .desktop files and use a symlink
> instead. I think this is a good idea, but I have been coding for 10
> hours 30 minutes now, so it is time for me to go to sleep.
>
> Edward
>
> On 06/01/2016, Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> wrote:
>> Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> writes:
>>> Enjoy yourself, I am working on it. I think, I got a way of putting it
>>> right. There are two .desktop files that control how netman gui
>>> behaves:
>>> a) /etc/xdg/autostart/netman.desktop
>>> b) /usr/share/applications/netman.desktop
>>>
>>> The netman-gui.postinst script has to modify both of them.
>>
>> In this case, you shouldn't copy the file but create a symlink to
>> it. This means there's only one copy which has to be modified.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> The sed command in the postinst script also has to
>>> make sure no multiple Exec= and Comment= lines are added to both
>>> .desktop files.
>>
>> sed is generally the wrong choice for editing files (as it's the 'stream
>> editor'). ed can be used for that (needs to become a package dependency
>> as 'certain people in the Debian project' were hit by a pine at a
>> formative age and are thus opposed to using sensibly-working text
>> editors).
>>
>> The following shell function should be sufficient for your use-case
>>
>> -------
>> change_line()
>> {
>>     file="$1"
>>     new="`echo $2 | sed 's/\(.\)/\\\\\1/g'`"
>>     key=`expr "$2" : "\([^=]\+=\)."`
>>     ed "$file" <<EOF
>> /^$key/s/.*/$new
>> wq
>> EOF
>> }
>> -------

>>
>> This takes a file as first argument and the new line as second
>> argument. If a line with the same 'keyword' (text before the first =)
>> already exists, it's replaced. Otherwise, nothing happens.
>>
>> NB: Like all shell code (or most), this won't work with 'suitably
>> crafted input'. But shell programming is an exercise in inventing 'good
>> enough' solutions for fairly well-defined problems.
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