2 Dec
2011
2 Dec
'11
8:39 a.m.
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Darrell Anderson
<humanreadable(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
To all:
I uploaded the proposed migration script in bug report 705. This is a proposed script.
My ego is not that big. Feel free to improve the script in all ways! I added comments in
the areas I know needs improvement right now.
Yet overall the script works wonderfully well here. So we're off to a good start. :)
Darrell
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You might want to specify /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh. Debian and I
think Ubuntu also, use "dash" as default "sh". I was testing your
script a little and got a "Bad substitution" error when
Wait_For_Response is called. I don't know exactly why but there is
info here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
After further reading that page, I believe it's the substring
expansion in that function that is the problem. Also on that page is
mention of a "checkbashisms" script which I found here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/checkbaskisms/files/2.0.0.2/
I ran that script on your script and got:
possible bashism in migratekde3 line 69 (${foo:3[:1]}):
while [ "${response:0:1}" != "Y" ] && [
"${response:0:1}" != "y" ] &&
[ "${response:0:1}" != "N" ] && [ "${response:0:1}"
!= "n" ]; do
possible bashism in migratekde3 line 74 (read with option other than -r):
read -er -n 1 -p "$1 (y/n): " response
Getting the script to ask permission to migrate if
already in X is a
challenge because the user's profile
partially exists
when
KPersonalizer starts. Therefore any migration
needs to
happen before
even an empty $HOME/.trinity exists. Can KDialog
commands be used at
that point? If not then the only option is
xmessage
(eew).
Just an idea, I don't know if it's possible:
* Start KDE with a temporary KDEHOME (mktemp)
* Copy $HOME/.kde to $HOME/.trinity (if desired)
* Copy temporary files from $KDEHOME to $HOME/.trinity (if
needed)
* Set KDEHOME to $HOME/.trinity
(or restart KDE, but it isn't elegant)