Re: Package update requires modification of config file in users' home directories

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On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:10 AM Alexander Ploumistos <alex.ploumistos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

Upstream has just released a bugfix update for Molsketch and it's the
kind of update that can't wait for the next fedora release. Among the
other fixes, the new version has dropped support for Qt4 and with it,
the -qt5 suffixes of several files.
While testing it, I realized that after the update, a line in
~/.config/SourceForge/Molsketch.conf has to change from
obabel-iface-path=/usr/lib64/molsketch/libobabeliface-qt5.so
to
obabel-iface-path=/usr/lib64/molsketch/libobabeliface.so
(on a x86_64 system) otherwise features from OpenBabel are not
available to the program.

Is there something I can do to sed out the -qt5 suffix, or should I
just bite the bullet, build the update and wait for the bug reports to
come in?

You could maybe try to hack this around by installing a symlink from libobabeliface-qt5.so to libobabeliface.so so that existing config files continue working.

Also, reach out to upstream and discuss the issue. The app when it starts up could maybe detect the issue in the config file and update it, or something along those lines.

-- 
Hope this helps,
Kalev
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