Re: Panel HEAD vs Rhythmbox CVS - failed to open Places

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Jan de Groot wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 13:40 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote:
>  
>
> > Il giorno mer, 09-02-2005 alle 11:55 +0100, Alexander Larsson ha
> > scritto:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Make sure update-desktop-database $prefix/share/applications/ gets run
> > > after install. Shouldn't all application makefiles be doing this when
> > > building from tarballs, or is something else handling this?
> > >      
> > Here is "desktop-file-install" provided by fd.o desktop-file-utils, but
> > it's not used :-(  Maybe someone could hack on gnome-common rules
> >    
>
> If this gets into gnome-common makefiles, make sure it can be disabled
> with an environment variable or a --disable-thing, since I don't want to
> end up hacking makefiles for this as we do with scrollkeeper now. For
> packaging it's not right to update these databases, either they appear
> in the package and conflict or overwrite a database generated in another
> package, or they rebuild your system's database if they have permission
> to do so (I build with user and fakeroot, so the last thing was never an
> issue with older automake standards)
>  
Why would you want to disable it?  The "make install" rule would run 
"update-desktop-database $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/applications", which would 
update the mimeinfo.cache file in that directory.  If you are building a 
package you could just delete the mimeinfo.cache file from the buildroot 
afterwards or simply not package it.

James.