NetBSD Problem Report #57375

From adrian@mx.aik.onl  Sun Apr 23 17:20:25 2023
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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 19:20:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: adrian@mx.aik.onl
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Subject: Bugfix to enable Russian, French an German keyboard within the package kvkbd
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>Number:         57375
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       Bugfix to enable Russian, French an German keyboard within the package kvkbd
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    ryoon
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Apr 23 17:25:00 +0000 2023
>Last-Modified:  Thu May 04 04:35:01 +0000 2023
>Originator:     Adrian Immanuel Kiess
>Release:        NetBSD 9.3
>Organization:
KIESS.ONL
>Environment:


System: NetBSD www3.kiess.onl 9.3 NetBSD 9.3 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Aug 4 15:30:37 UTC 2022 mkrepro@mkrepro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
Dear maintainers of the pkg xvkbd,

		 using the default xvkbd installation from the pre-built binaries on NetBSD/amd64, it is not possible to enable the Russian keyboard.

		 To use the Russian, French and German keyboard within xvkbd, the following changes are necessary:

% cat /usr/pkg/lib/X11/app-defaults/XVkbd
#include "XVkbd-common"
#include "XVkbd-german"
#include "XVkbd-french"
#include "XVkbd-russian"

XVkbd searches for the keyboard definitions, in a other directory then where the installation of the pkg puts them:

% ln -s /usr/pkg/lib/X11/app-defaults/XVkbd-russian /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/app-defaults/XVkbd-russian

% ln -s /usr/pkg/lib/X11/app-defaults/XVkbd-french /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/app-defaults/XVkbd-russian

% ln -s /usr/pkg/lib/X11/app-defaults/XVkbd-german /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/app-defaults/XVkbd-russian

Now you can use Russian, French and German keyboard.

Sincerely,

Adrian Kiess

>How-To-Repeat:
  # pkgin install xvkbd, launch xvkbd as user, -> xvkbd menu -> Change keyboard layout -> Russian
>Fix:
As described in main message.

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:

Responsible-Changed-From-To: pkg-manager->ryoon
Responsible-Changed-By: wiz@NetBSD.org
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 18:15:09 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:
Over to maintainer


From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/57375: Bugfix to enable Russian, French an German keyboard
 within the package kvkbd
Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 04:33:30 +0000

 On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 05:25:01PM +0000, adrian@mx.aik.onl wrote:
  > Dear maintainers of the pkg xvkbd,
  > 
  > 		 using the default xvkbd installation from the pre-built binaries on NetBSD/amd64, it is not possible to enable the Russian keyboard.
  > 
  > 		 To use the Russian, French and German keyboard within xvkbd, the following changes are necessary:
  > 
  > % cat /usr/pkg/lib/X11/app-defaults/XVkbd
  > #include "XVkbd-common"
  > #include "XVkbd-german"
  > #include "XVkbd-french"
  > #include "XVkbd-russian"

 (Why is it using app-defaults anyway? Did we fall into a timewarp back
 to 1992?)

  > XVkbd searches for the keyboard definitions, in a other directory then where the installation of the pkg puts them:
  > 
  > % ln -s /usr/pkg/lib/X11/app-defaults/XVkbd-russian /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/app-defaults/XVkbd-russian

 This is problematic because packages shouldn't touch files outside the
 package tree.

 Better to fix the search path.

 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland@netbsd.org

>Unformatted:

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