Re: [evolution-patches] Patch to Configure Bonobo Activation Path for Odd Prefixes

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 11:28, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> Here's a patch to add the prefix that evolution is installed to,
> to the bonobo activation config file, so that installing to a
> separate prefix than bonobo-activation, will still result in a
> working install. bonobo-activation-server needs to be restarted,
> and since "pkill bonobo-activation-server" doesn't seem to work
> on linux

It's probably trying to kill root's bonobo-activation-server.

> , and packagers (ie, me), can
> do what's necessary for the specific platform(s), in the postinst
> rules, that should copy what this does inside the if statement.

But you'd have to kill every bonobo-activation-server on the machine,
and wouldn't that cause problems with logged-in users?

Really, bonobo-activation should notice that the config file changed,
the same way it notices if .server files change.

-- Dan