On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 10:38:14PM -0700, Pete Goodeve wrote: > suggest something like the following: > > The package can put the default font where it is now, but big_synth.sy > should link to, say, /boot/system/settings/synth/system.sf2, which in > turn by default links back to the font in /boot/system/data/synth. > OK -- that doesn't work... (:-() I set up a package as I described, (using a work folder with the desired tree structure), intending to place a link in /boot/system/settings/synth, but that folder is not created by package installation. Here's a list of the package: package-attributes: name: timgmsoundfont summary: A good quality General Midi Soundfont description: A good quality General Midi Soundfont. vendor: Haiku Project packager: Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> architecture: any version: 2012_11_1-5 copyright: 2004 Tim Brechbill license: Public Domain URL: http://ocmnet.com/saxguru/Timidity.htm source URL: provides: timgmsoundfont = 2012_11_1 (compatible >= 0) data 0 2014-08-24 18:52:07 drwxr-xr-x synth 0 2014-08-25 21:58:31 drwxr-xr-x Installing alternative sound fonts 386 2013-06-17 18:49:02 -rw-r--r-- TimGM6mb.sf2 5996892 2011-12-11 16:55:47 -rw-r--r-- big_synth.sy 0 2014-08-25 21:58:31 lrwxrwxrwx -> ../../settings/synth/system.sf2 settings 0 2014-08-25 21:06:07 drwxr-xr-x synth 0 2014-08-25 21:56:53 drwxr-xr-x system.sf2 0 2014-08-25 21:56:53 lrwxrwxrwx -> ../../data/synth/TimGM6mb.sf2 .PackageInfo 435 2014-08-25 21:04:36 -rw-r--r-- So what am I missing? Can't the PM system put stuff in settings? Something must be able to, because there's a lot of default stuff there. --Pete --