Bug 12475 – wrong mv command in startkde

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Georgios E. Kylafas 2002-12-20 03:55:51 UTC]

I have set an alias for mv like this: 
 
alias mv='mv -i' 
 
so as not to accidentally overwrite any file. 
However, whenever I start X & KDE, the system waits for my 
verification of the following command: 
 
[ -d .kde ] && mv .kde .kde.backup 
 
(belonging to the /usr/kde/3/bin/startkde script) 
in tty1, while I watch the X background in tty7. 
 
I propose the following modification to the startkde script: 
 
--- startkde~   2002-12-20 11:39:41.000000000 +0200  
+++ startkde    2002-12-19 11:03:43.000000000 +0200  
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@  
 export KDEDIRS="/usr/kde/3:/usr" # do NOT include env.d's $KDEDIRS  
  
 cd ~  
-[ -d .kde ] && mv .kde .kde.backup  
+[ -d .kde ] && mv -f .kde .kde.backup  
 [ -e .kde3 ] || mkdir .kde3  
 ln -sf .kde3 .kde  
 export KDEHOME="${HOME}/.kde3"

[Comment 1 Dan Armak (RETIRED) 2003-01-27 15:32:04 UTC]

I have fixed it in the 3.1 ebuild, by calling /bin/mv directly, so aliases will have no effect. -f 
should not be needed now. 
Will fix in 3.0.x (there it calls for new ~ revisions as they're stable and we're in a freeze)... 

[Comment 2 Dan Armak (RETIRED) 2003-01-28 06:06:53 UTC]

Fixed for 3.0.x in the new (masked) kdebase-3.0.5a-r1. 

[Comment 3 Dan Armak (RETIRED) 2003-01-28 06:26:48 UTC]

um, that should have been -r2 

[Comment 4 Georgios E. Kylafas 2003-01-31 07:40:52 UTC]

Your solution fixes things up very nicely. Thank you very much :-) 

[Comment 5 Dan Armak (RETIRED) 2003-02-01 12:33:39 UTC]

Those revisions are now marked ~, so we can close this.