config converting problem

Henning Gerhardt henning.gerhardt at web.de
Wed Aug 11 10:49:54 CDT 2004


Hi Marcus, you wrote:

>> > I'm not sure what to do about this, except maybe to add back in support 
>> > for ${HOME} style vars. It's clear that people are "using" (at least, 
>> > installing) much older versions than we anticipated.
>> > 
>> 
>> The problem comes when upgrading from an old version (still supporting
>> ${HOME}) to a newer version (supporting either %HOME% or dosdevices).
>> 
>> The older version, by itself, still works correctly.
>
>On SUSE:
>
>mv away the fake_windows directory (mv ~/.wine ~/.wine.old).
>
>run wineprefixcreate, it will create a new setup.


I have a question: Why create wineprefixcreate the "Program Files" and 
"Program Files/Common Files" as a subdirectory of the windows directory instead of 
the root directory ?

I attached a patch to prevent this behaviour.

Bye,

	Henning
-------------- next part --------------
--- wineprefixcreate.in	2004-08-11 17:35:48.000000000 +0200
+++ wineprefixcreate.in.new	2004-08-11 17:37:34.000000000 +0200
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@
     "$CROOT/windows/inf" \
     "$CROOT/windows/profiles" \
     "$CROOT/windows/profiles/Administrator" \
-    "$CROOT/windows/Program Files" \
-    "$CROOT/windows/Program Files/Common Files" \
+    "$CROOT/Program Files" \
+    "$CROOT/Program Files/Common Files" \
     "$CROOT/windows/Start Menu" \
     "$CROOT/windows/Start Menu/Programs" \
     "$CROOT/windows/Start Menu/Programs/Startup" \


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