On 21 May 2017 at 20:06, Richard Melville <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 21 May 2017 at 19:59, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 07:14:22PM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: >> > On 21 May 2017 at 16:35, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > I disagree. My logs from last week show that package creating that >> > > directory. Which package do _you_ think created that directory ? >> > > >> > >> > Ken, that's a very good question. Unfortunately, if a package builds >> > without problems I don't keep the logs. I build everything in a >> separate >> > build directory, and then clear that directory on success. Maybe I >> should >> > keep all the build logs in a separate directory, but I've seen no point >> -- >> > until now, maybe. >> > >> > All I can say is that, on this build, I've only just installed >> > hicolor-icon-theme and /usr/share/icons/hicolor was already in >> existence, >> > created by an earlier package. Clearly, I could track this down as I >> have >> > a list of all the packages I've installed, but it will take some time. >> > >> > The reason that I'm so certain is because when the hicolor-icons-theme >> > build initially failed I checked /usr/share/icons and hicolor existed >> with >> > a number of entries. As I've been working on this build sporadically >> over >> > the last few months it was dated 18 March. Then, when the build of >> > hicolor-icon-theme succeeded, the date of the directory changed to 21 >> May >> > (today) as it was overwritten. Anyway, if I have the time I'll see if I >> > can dig out the answer. >> > >> > Richard >> >> Richard, no need to do that. Just look at the files (png) within >> /usr/share/icons/hicolor. I do not have many on this build (very >> little gnome, no kde, very little xfce) and mine come from cups, >> evince, gimp, gtk3, inkscape, libreoffice, parole, qupzilla, vlc, >> xfburn and xine. >> >> I guess some packages will install their icons even if the directory >> is not present, but without hicolor-icon-theme itself the index >> presumably cannot be created. >> >> I'm building hicolor-icon-theme shortly after I build >> gobject-introspection and dbus-glib in the expectation that it >> should be available for anything that wants to use it. >> >> So, for your build-order you are correct that h-i-t did not create >> that directory, because it already existed. >> > > I was just in the process of replying to you. Finding the answer was much > easier that I imagined; I forgot that I was tracking all my installs with > porg. The answer is that both djvulibre-3.5.27 and emacs-25.1 previously > created, and/or wrote to, /usr/share/icons/hicolor before the > hicolor-icon-theme install. > Yes, I see what you mean about the .png files; if I'd dug a bit deeper I could have found the answer that way, although it was much easier grepping the porg log. Richard
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