[packman] discord request

[Giacomo Comes]

That should work too. Let me try it and see what comes out.

Cheers,
Giacomo

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 11:24:52AM +0100, Dominik Heidler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> wouldn't it be sufficient to replace the discord main executable by a wrapper script
> that applies this setting before every start of discord and then
> uses exec to run the actual discord binary?
>
> Regards,
> Dominik
>
> Am 19.12.23 um 05:10 schrieb Giacomo Comes:
> > Hi,
> > as you may know, discord has the bad habit to disable the start
> > of the program as soon as a new version is available.
> > This feature was quite annoying when discord was releasing updates
> > every few months, but now then the releases happen weekly,
> > it has become intolerable.
> > Few months ago there was an attempt to disable the update check,
> > (/usr/lib64/discord/disable-breaking-updates.py) but such attempt
> > never worked for openSUSE.
> > I have prepared a new modification that works
> > (https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:gcomes.obs/discord)
> > and I'm going to submit it to OBS.
> > However, such change requires a systemd user service that should
> > be enabled by default. Since the chances to get approved the
> > default enabling of the service are slim, I'm going to make
> > such service disabled by default on OBS, but enabled on packman.
> > The way I did it uses:
> >    %bcond_without distributable
> > in the spec file. Therefore for packman to have discord work
> > with the service enabled by default one of the following is required:
> > 1) move discord to from the project Extras to Essential
> >     (Essential has %define _without_distributable 1 in the
> >      project config)
> > 2) add %define _without_distributable 1 to the project config
> >     of Extras
> >
> > Is there any problem with such request?
> >
> > Giacomo
> >
> >
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