gtk-update-icon-cache %posttrans (was Re: Error output from rpm pre/post scripts)

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Sun Jul 8 18:00:57 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 11:29 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 16:28 +0200, Phil Knirsch wrote:
> >>
> >> I really like that solution to be honest. It avoids lots of unnecessary
> >> gtk-update-icon-cache calls during the update and only does it once at
> >> the end. Could something similar be done for the scrollkeeper-update
> >> calls as well btw? Or do they need to be done after each package install?
> >>
> > scrollkeeper is a little different.  On package install it calls:
> >  scrollkeeper-update -q -o /usr/share/omf/NAME || :
> >
> > to process the just-installed omf file whereas ldconfig and
> > gtk-update-icon-cache rescan all libraries or icons in a hierarchy.
> 
> Well, that's how packages currently call it to avoid processing other 
> entries. But check 'scrollkeeper-update -v' - it actually processes all 
> the omf entries there by default, unless told otherwise. So this would 
> apply to scrollkeeper just as well.
> 
I thought the cost of running scrollkeeper-update over all the omf files
was higher.  A quick test shows that it is comparable to ldconfig and
gtk-update-icon-cache so you're right, we could call it at the end of
all transactions.

-Toshio
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