Re: help needed: smplayer changed it's config dir

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.