[Portland] kbuildsycoca and xdg-utils

[Bastian, Waldo]

KDE should pick up the menu changes fairly quickly anyway. xdg-mime runs
it because it affects the result of a subsequent xdg-mime query or
xdg-open.

The grep /etc/passwd in scripts.patch doesn't seem reliable to me. I
don't think there is a guarantee that the current user is listed in
there if accounts are stored in LDAP or so, is there? I'm also worried
that these sudo calls can lead to password prompts. 

Waldo Bastian
Linux Client Architect - Client Linux Foundation Technology
Channel Platform Solutions Group
Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux
OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman

>-----Original Message-----
>From: portland-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:portland-
>bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Lubos Lunak
>Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 10:43 AM
>To: portland at lists.freedesktop.org
>Subject: [Portland] kbuildsycoca and xdg-utils
>
>
> Hello,
>
> both xdg-desktop-menu and xdg-icon-resource have things like
--noupdate,
>forceupdate and so on, but they are actually not used in KDE, so
updates in
>KDE are always delayed. Which leads to those annoying warnings in the
>testsuite and also in the real case nobody will tell the user.
>
> Ok, xdg-icon-resource actually tries to run it, but only with
non-system
>changes. Attached scripts.patch tries to trigger and wait for
kbuildsycoca
>when necessary. Actually not trivial at all, see the comments for the
>function for the hackery :(. It works here for all the 4 mentioned
cases
>(su,sudo,kdesu,nothing). Okay to commit? It should probably get more
>testing
>on systems like Kubuntu. Although, on the other hand, running
kbuildsycoca
>explicitly is not critical.
>
> The second patch tries to remove the KDE warnings all over the
testsuite
>(well, and also the strange test using "$GDMSESSION" = "kde" - how many
>people do actually really have it set this way?). Since the test now
kind
>of
>requires X display I also removed set_no_display in needed places.
However
>I
>still must be missing one place somewhere, because the first tests
don't
>trigger kbuildsycoca - any idea?
>
>--
>Lubos Lunak
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