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Bug 701059 - update-desktop-database trigger does not run
update-desktop-database trigger does not run
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: jhbuild
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: general
3.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Jhbuild maintainers
Jhbuild QA
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-05-26 18:58 UTC by Adam Dingle
Modified: 2013-05-26 19:09 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Attachments
fix (808 bytes, patch)
2013-05-26 19:03 UTC, Adam Dingle 		accepted-commit_now Details | Review

Description Adam Dingle 2013-05-26 18:58:47 UTC 
jhbuild contains a trigger 'desktop-database.trigger' which should run update-desktop-database after any application is installed.  But I just installed several applications with jhbuild and found that update-desktop-database did not run: my local install dir's mimeinfo.cache file was empty.
Comment 1 Adam Dingle 2013-05-26 19:03:04 UTC 
Created attachment 245352 [details] [review]
fix

I believe the problem is simply that the path in desktop-database.trigger is wrong: it's looking for .desktop files to be installed in subdirectories of $(prefix)/share/applications, i.e. $(prefix)/share/applications/appname/appname.desktop.  But I'm not aware of any application which installs desktop files in such a location; as far as I'm aware desktop files always go in share/applications directly.

Here's a fix.
Comment 2 Colin Walters 2013-05-26 19:07:14 UTC 
Review of attachment 245352 [details] [review]:

Oops, yes.  Looks right.
Comment 3 Adam Dingle 2013-05-26 19:09:10 UTC 
Pushed the fix.