Re: freedesktop/desktop-file-utils: update-desktop-database problem

["Joseph E. Sacco, PhD" <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

You are correct... [as usual :-)]

The patched Makefile fixes the broken post-install target but does not
address the larger issue of updating the desktop cache *after*
everything is built.

Yet another reason for a "post install" section in the README.


-Joseph

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 17:35 +0200, guenther wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 09:46 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote:
> > Attached is a patched Makefile that resolves the update-desktop-database
> > problem.
> > 
> > The problem
> > -----------
> > The command
> > 
> > 	update-desktop-database 
> > 
> > updates the cache file of each entry found in
> > 
> > 	XDG_DATA_DIRS
> > 
> > The user running the command must have write permission in each datadir
> > associated with each entry in XDG_DATA_DIRS.  If not, the command will
> > fail.
> [ snipp ]
> 
> What's going on here anyway? Why does a post-install target in
> freedesktop/desktop-file-utils call update-desktop-database at all?
> 
> This executable needs to be called every time there are new .desktop
> files in $prefix/share/applications -- which is the case *after* you
> installed one or more new packages.
> 
> IMHO it does not make any sense calling this right after installing
> desktop-file-utils, as there are no .desktop files yet. This needs to be
> run after you finished building GARNOME.
> 
> ...guenther
> 
> 
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