Merge lp:~aacid/unity8-session-snap/install_cursor_symlink into lp:unity8-session-snap

[Albert Astals Cid]

Install the index.theme cursor shortcut theme

In the deb world this is done by the post-install of the dmz-cursor-theme package but there's no such thing in as post-install rules in snap so bascally this "by hand"

[Lukáš Tinkl (lukas-kde)]

Probably correct, but what about this solution? https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/unity8-desktop-session/accountsservice/+merge/310005

review: Needs Information

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

No idea, documentation about that .links file is either nonexistent or impossible to find, so i don't know what that MR actually does.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Albert, good find! Thanks.

(That links file is read by dh_link. So a man page does exist. But you have to know its name first... But basically it just creates symlinks.)

I think here, we can do a simpler thing. the contents of snaphelpers/ just gets copied into the root of the snap. So we can put a snaphelpers/usr/share/icons/default/index.theme symlink in there and it will just work.

I haven't tested that, I'm trying to fix another thing right this second, but I can test and add that to the branch if it works.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

OK, I tested the simpler "copy the symlink into place" approach above and it worked. Thanks for the debugging Albert.

I've pushed the symlink change to trunk; I'll mark this MP as rejected.

Unmerged revisions

45. By Albert Astals Cid on 2016-11-07

Install the index.theme cursor shortcut theme

=== added directory 'cursor-symlink'
=== added file 'cursor-symlink/CMakeLists.txt'
--- cursor-symlink/CMakeLists.txt	1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
+++ cursor-symlink/CMakeLists.txt	2016-11-07 10:18:24 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
+
+project(cursor-symlink)
+
+set(CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE ON)
+
+install(FILES index.theme DESTINATION usr/share/icons/default/)

=== added symlink 'cursor-symlink/index.theme'
=== target is u'../DMZ-White/cursor.theme'
=== modified file 'snapcraft.yaml'
--- snapcraft.yaml	2016-10-27 14:57:36 +0000
+++ snapcraft.yaml	2016-11-07 10:18:24 +0000
@@ -147,6 +147,11 @@
       - gschema-compile
     plugin: dump
     source: snaphelpers
+  cursor-symlink:
+    after:
+      - snappyhelpers
+    plugin: cmake
+    source: cursor-symlink
 
 apps:
   unity8-session: