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Bug 104718 - redhat-config-date should call "timeconfig" if ${DISPLAY} isn't set.
Summary: redhat-config-date should call "timeconfig" if ${DISPLAY} isn't set.
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: redhat-config-date
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact:
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Whiteboard:
: 98516 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-09-19 17:45 UTC by Jesse Keating
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:57 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2003-09-19 19:05:29 UTC
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Description Jesse Keating 2003-09-19 17:45:08 UTC 
Description of problem:
redhat-config-date is an X11 application, but the package itself doesn't depend
on X11, mostly because it also includes "timeconfig" which is an ncurses app. 
This can confuse uses trying to use redhat-config-date w/out X11 installed,
especially since it seems that redhat-config-date doesn't have a "--help"
option.  To counter this, can't redhat-config-time call "timeconfig" if
${DISPLAY} isn't set?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install redhat-config-date, w/out X11 installed
2. Try to run redhat-config-date, get error about no X
3. Try to run redhat-config-date --help, still get error message.
    

Actual Results:  Error messages about no X

Expected Results:  Fall back to timeconfig.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jesse Keating 2003-09-19 17:46:56 UTC 
Another option would be to split "timeconfig" out of the package, and making
r-c-date depend on say pygtk2.
Comment 2 Brent Fox 2003-09-19 19:05:29 UTC 
I've changed it to just call 'timeconfig' if the GUI can't be started up. 
Should be fixed in redhat-config-users-1.5.22-1.  Thanks for your report.
Comment 3 Brent Fox 2003-10-15 21:43:14 UTC 
*** Bug 98516 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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