On 03/19/2012 02:32 PM, Nikos Roussos wrote:
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Alec Leamas <leamas.a...@gmail.com
<mailto:leamas.a...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 03/19/2012 12:50 PM, Nikos Roussos wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to build a package. It's an update on SparkleShare
<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/sparkleshare>
package. I build it locally with mock and everything seems ok.
Package is built successfully. But when I try to build it on koji
I get an error and build fails on both f16 f17 targets:
"The databases in [/usr/share/applications] could not be updated."
which I think has something to do with the desktop-file-validate
on %install phase
See the relevant koji task and build log for more:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3908835
Any help appreciated
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Nikos Roussos <http://autoverse.net>
From the log, it looks like it fails in 'install-data-hook'. If
so, the culprit might be some Makefile.am. Have upstream updated a
Makefile.am to include 'desktop-file-install', failing when not
making a "real" install int /usr?
If this is right, you should be able to verify that the %install
hasn't really begun when the error is triggered. If unsure, put
some simple 'echo' statement in top of %install to verify that it
hasn't been started.
If this doesn't help, scanning the generated Makefiles for
'desktop-file-install' and/or '/usr/share/applications' might
give a clue
Actually there is an:
install-data-hook:
update-desktop-database $(datadir)/applications
which seems to be the exact point that installation fails
You must patch that, it will try to update /usr/share/applications when
building the rpm which of course isn't acceptable.
For Fedora, you could just remove the target and run automake; autoconf;
./configure, given that you run update-desktop-database as part of %install.
However, this should really be resolved together with upstream. If they
want to keep the functionality, one could possibly:
- Move it from install-data-hook to a separate target such as
'install-desktop' and let users run this as part of installation into
system dirs.
- Only run update-desktop-database if $(datadir)/applications is writeable:
Personally, I would prefer the first one. To mess with
/usr/share/applications when DESTDIR is set is not really the way 'make
install' is supposed to work. And updating
$(DESTDIR)/$(datadir)/applications just doesn't make sense.
But I'm just a newbie, maybe someone else has a better piece of advice here?
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