On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Alec Leamas <leamas.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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>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 >> >> -- >> 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? > I wrote a small patch to comment out this line and it worked just fine. I'll file a bug upstream. Thanks for the help.
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