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

[Rodney Dawes <dobey ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 11:48, Dan Winship wrote:
> 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.

Shouldn't it kill all bonobo-activation-servers? I mean, that's how
pkill seems to work on real OSes.

> > , 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?

No. Actually, you would send HUP, and not just kill them. And either
way, the server daemon will be restarted almost immediately, since
things will need it. Doing a bonobo-slay is what really screws the
desktop.

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

True, but we need some way to work with the old bonobo-activation
versions that are broken, even if we do fix that, for 1.4 anyway, since
we are maintaining compatibility with the GNOME 2.0 release.

-- dobey