files installed by modules are not tracked

[keszybz]

After ninja-build install, ninja-build uninstall I see

$ find /var/tmp/inst7 -type f
/var/tmp/inst7/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
/var/tmp/inst7/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo
...
/var/tmp/inst7/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/systemd.mo

All other installed files seem to be removed, so it seems only i18n does not support that.

[inigomartinez]

Files installed by gnome.yelp aren't also installed. Neither files installed by i18n.gettext nor gnome.yelp are present in the meson-logs/install-log.txt file.

[TingPing]

Yes any custom installation provided by modules is not currently tracked, we need to add some helper function to do so.

[raveit65]

I like to push the report again.
We see that problem with several packages, currently we are switching MATE desktop to use meson build system.
mate-desktop/mate-backgrounds#22 (comment)
and
mate-desktop/mate-desktop#333 (comment)
Would be nice if this can be fixed.
Thanks.

[ericonr]

@TingPing what sort of help is necessary for this to happen? I can try to add the feature.

[dcbaker]

There's several lists in the Build class (mesonbuild/build.py), which is in the ModuleState, man, data, and headers which modules need to update. There's code in the mesonbuild/interpreter.py that does a bunch of the front end parsing and updates these. I'm not sure exactly what it would look like, but that's where I'd start.

[andy5995]

Anyone have suggestions as to user-friendly ways to uninstall the mo files? I was thinking of generating an uninstall_langs shell script, based on an .in file that contains variables which get replaced by the paths to the mo files.

[andy5995]

Anyone have suggestions as to user-friendly ways to uninstall the mo files? I was thinking of generating an uninstall_langs shell script, based on an .in file that contains variables which get replaced by the paths to the mo files.

if get_option('nls')
  ul = configuration_data()
  ul.set('LOCALEDIR', localedir)
  ul.set('MESON_SOURCE_ROOT', meson.source_root())
  ul.set('MESON_PROJECT_NAME', meson.project_name())
  configure_file(input : 'uninstall_langs.sh.in',
                 output : 'uninstall_langs.sh',
                 configuration : ul)
endif

#!/bin/sh

LINGUAS=$(cat @MESON_SOURCE_ROOT@/po/LINGUAS)

for lang in $LINGUAS; do
  file="@LOCALEDIR@/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/@MESON_PROJECT_NAME@.mo"
  if test -f "$file"; then
    echo "removing $file"
    /bin/rm "$file"
  else
    echo "$file does not exist"
  fi
done

[eli-schwartz]

Just realized that this ticket existed, but I fixed it for i18n (not gnome.yelp) in #9074

[keszybz]

Yep, it's fixed. Thanks!

[ericonr]

Some maintainer might want to reopen this issue or create a similar one for gnome.yelp and any other module. Those still need to be fixed.

[Volker-Weissmann]

Some maintainer might want to reopen this issue or create a similar one for gnome.yelp and any other module. Those still need to be fixed.

26c1869 fixed this for gnome.yelp.