icon-theme.cache being packaged

[rffontenelle]

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache is being packaged together with other relevant Poedit files during make install step. This file is generated when running gtk-update-icon-cache, which distros usually run on post-install phase of package installation, and usually it is not packaged together.

If possible to not install this file, I haven't found. Please enlighten if there is a well and I'll pass it downstream

Poedit version: 3.0
Distro: Arch Linux 64-bit
Package: poedit 1:3.0-1

I experienced this issue with the package provided in arch official repos, and then I built it myself to achieve the same result. I see the following output when installing the package:

$ sudo pacman -S poedit
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) poedit-1:3.0-1

Total Installed Size:  6.77 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                     [######################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                   [######################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                        [######################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                  [######################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
poedit: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Arch's package manager prints this error when the package is trying to replace existing file that does not belongs the package itself (e.g. in previous version).

[vslavik]

make install does not "package" anything - that's distribution's job.

make install installs Poedit and in doing so, updates the cache as it is supposed to.

Please direct complains about packaging to those responsible for the packages, as that is what is broken here, not Poedit's makefiles.

[c72578]

@rffontenelle Remark: In Fedora we remove the installed icon-theme.cache file before packaging.
e.g.: rm %{buildroot}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache
See: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/poedit/c/dc4deb47ab540bf6524b0574ae2e9c51e17638bd?branch=rawhide

[rffontenelle]

@c72578 Yeah, this solution was my initial thought but I've never saw an upstream software installing icon-theme.cache, so I thought it would worth reporting upstream as this could be an issue for many distros. I'll report this to downstream too.

[vslavik]

I was alerted that I was wrong about this by @super7ramp (details matter, and I misread them in the referenced tutorial) and they now fixed it in 6edfa2d

Sorry :(