Bug 771487

the package contains our standard fedora rpm icon scriptlets:

%post
touch --no-create %{_kde4_iconsdir}/oxygen &> /dev/null || :

%posttrans
gtk-update-icon-cache %{_kde4_iconsdir}/oxygen &> /dev/null || :

%postun
if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then
touch --no-create %{_kde4_iconsdir}/oxygen &> /dev/null || :
gtk-update-icon-cache %{_kde4_iconsdir}/oxygen &> /dev/null || :
fi


I'd have expected the latter, %postun one to clean up the .cache alright.

But, as it turns out, it doesn't, grr, since gtk-update-icon-cache won't process a icon directory with no index.theme file.

this same problem should affect any/all packaged icon themes. :(


gtk folks, mind making gtk-update-icon-cache smarter to remove an existing and obviously invalid icon-theme.cache in this case? or come up with some better way to handle it (preferably without having to change scriptlets in <n> different icon packages)?

I have %ghosted the cache files in my icon theme packages.

Sure, that's an option.

Seems to me this is a problem only for the main icon theme package, the one that provides the index.theme file.  So, the impact shouldn't be large.

I guess we can go with that.

I'll look into fixing guidelines and affected icon theme packages.

I suppose in a perfect world these icon-theme.cache files would all go under /var/cache/ somewhere (similar to how fontconfig cache files eventually ended up in /var/cache/fontconfig).

Would that merely require toolkit changes?

I naively assumed so, but the move to use /var/cache would likely be more work than my original suggestion of simply removing the icon-theme.cache file when it's obviously invalid (as in the case of a missing index.theme)

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