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Bug 480550 - app-emulation/playonlinux - Playonlinux prompts for an update at every launch.
Summary: app-emulation/playonlinux - Playonlinux prompts for an update at every launch.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Games (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Michael Mol
URL: http://www.playonlinux.com/en/issue-2...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: PATCH, UPSTREAM
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-08-11 02:52 UTC by Emily Mills
Modified: 2015-03-11 08:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
Patch to correct the bug (playonlinux-enable-debian-package.patch,751 bytes, patch)
2013-08-11 02:56 UTC, Emily Mills
Details | Diff

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Description Emily Mills 2013-08-11 02:52:55 UTC
At every launch of playonlinux, a dialog is displayed informing the user that a new version is available.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Launch playonlinux
Actual Results:  
Dialog is displayed showing new version is available

Expected Results:  
No message should be displayed
Comment 1 Emily Mills 2013-08-11 02:56:17 UTC
Created attachment 355650 [details, diff]
Patch to correct the bug

I've created a patch that fixes this bug. Upstream has created a "DEBIAN_PACKAGE" flag that performs several tasks that are useful when the program is installed via the package manager.

Ideally upstream would have separated these out, however it does appear that all of the documented effects are beneficial to the installation via portage.

I've tested this patch in my local portage overlay.
Comment 2 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-08-11 08:01:51 UTC
Which version of PlayOnLinux is affected, all of them?
Comment 3 Emily Mills 2013-08-11 14:22:58 UTC
On investigation, the DEBIAN_PACKAGE flag was added in this commit: https://github.com/PlayOnLinux/POL-POM-4/commit/362c5f7a899d3de10a68e5461404cca1913ec3fe This would mean that this fix applies to versions 4.1.2 and above.

However, on further investigation, it appears that the changes to the mscorefonts installation is strictly a Debian change.

I've submitted a bug upstream for a flag that can single out the update notification: http://www.playonlinux.com/en/issue-2882.html
Comment 4 Ian Delaney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-03-11 08:37:22 UTC
*playonlinux-4.2.6 (10 Mar 2015)

  10 Mar 2015; Ian Delaney <idella4@gentoo.org>
  +files/playonlinux-4.2.6-stop-update-warning.patch, +playonlinux-4.2.6.ebuild,
  -files/playonlinux-4.1.1-not-exclude-ipv6.patch, -playonlinux-4.1.1-r1.ebuild,
  -playonlinux-4.1.1.ebuild, metadata.xml:
  bump, fix nagging update notification, ack to Adam Mills for new patch, ack to
  Kent Fredric wrt bug #522356, fixes Bugs 480550 & 524522. proxy maintainership
  change to NP-Hardass with consent of prior maintainer wrt bug #542630