help needed: smplayer changed it's config dir

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:09:58 +0200, manuel wolfshant wrote:

> On 11/15/2008 01:54 AM, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I need some help before I upgrade smplayer in F9. The new version changed it's 
> > config dir from ~/.smplayer to ~/.config/smplayer. [1] The user has to move 
> > his old custom config manually if he wants to preserve it. Although smplayer 
> > would start normally, the custom config of the user wouldn't be used.
> >
> > So I'm not sure how I introduce this update in F9. We don't have such thinks 
> > like bodhi and it's upgrade notifications. So what would be the best way to 
> > inform the users that they have to manually move their config files to 
> > preserve them? Blog it on the new rpmfusion blog? :)
> >
> >   
> Any particular reason to not do a cp ~/.smplayer ~/.config/smplayer (or 
> even a ln -s) in %post ?

Yes. In %post, ~ doesn't expand to every user's home directory.

Instead, you probably want to patch the source code to rename/copy/move
the config dir/file  if ~/.config/smplayer doesn't exist already.