Re: hicolor-icon-theme installation/dependency problem

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

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On 01-02-11 14:28, Fabian Ruff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> first of all I'm not sure if this is the right mailing-list to post my
> question. Please point me to the right one if it isn't.
> 
> I've stumbled upon a problem building an recipe for custom software that
> depends on totem-pl-parser which itself depends on hicolor-icon-theme
> (which seems to be introduced by the gnome bbclass the totem-pl-parser
> recipe inherits from).
> 
> The installation of the hicolor-icon-theme fails at the postinstallation
> step because the directory /etc/gtk-2.0 and the binaries
> gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders & gtk-update-icon-cache don't exist.
> The postinst script of hicolor-icon-them is as follows:
> 
>> #!/bin/sh
>> if [ "x$D" != "x" ]; then
>>         exit 1
>> fi
>> # Update the pixbuf loaders in case they haven't been registered yet
>> gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
>>
>> for icondir in /usr/share/icons/* ; do
>>     if [ -d $icondir ] ; then
>>         gtk-update-icon-cache -qt  $icondir
>>     fi
>> done
> I believe this postinstallation step is added by the gtk-icon-cache
> class the hicolor-icon-theme recipe inherits from.
> 
> I don't know which package provides this binaries/directory but as the
> package hicolor-icon-theme explicitly has no RDEPENDS set this seems
> wrong somehow.
> Installing hicolor-icon-theme via opkg from a standard console-image
> installation leaves the package manager in an inconsistent state with a
> half installed hicolor-icon-theme package which additionally can't be
> removed anymore because the postrm step also expects
> gtk-update-icon-cache to be available.
> 
> Any suggestions how to fix this or how this was intended to work?
> I want to use totem-pl-parser with the least possible additional
> software and hope this is possible without unfolding a complete
> gnome/gtk universe in my installation.

In recent gtk versions gdk-pixbuf is now split out again (after being
merged in 2002). Using that would be a good solution. The intermediate
solution would be to make the make it rdepend on the current pixbug package.

Now, the *real* solution would be to check if an icon cache is actually
needed before trying to run gtk-update-icon-cache. ISRT the cache format
is an FDO spec, but I'm not sure.

regards,

Koen
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