Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:41:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: henry.hu.sh@gmail.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome-post-install ordering Message-ID: <201603182341.u2INfnxY047518@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <CAEJt7hZ6eb-Y2-aPs6GuoRgEG3yapyQsZQ3qMWD50ZHopD8jdw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 17 Mar, Henry Hu wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to debug why gtk-update-icon-cache isn't getting run when
>> the OpenOffice package is installed and ran into something that I don't
>> understand.
>>
>> The Makefile contains INSTALLS_ICONS=yes, which has the side effect of
>> setting USES+=gnome, USE_GNOME+=gtk-update-icon-cache, and
>> _USES_install+=690:gnome-post-install, and that target is responsible
>> for parsing ${TMPPLIST} and invoking gtk-update-icon-cache as needed.
>> I do see gtk-update-icon-cache in the dependency list in +MANIFEST, so
>> it appears that INSTALLS_ICONS=yes is being detected.
>>
>> It appears that things go wrong because I'm using the Makefile
>> post-install target to generate the plist. If I look at bsd.port.mk, I
>> see that _STAGE_SEQ contains 700:post-install. It looks to me like
>> gnome-post-install is getting run before the plist is generated, which
>> would explain why gnome-post-install isn't detecting any icons and not
>> invoking gtk-update-icon-cache.
>>
>> Why is gnome-post-install earlier than post-install, which at least some
>> ports use to do plist generation? Some ports do plist generation in
>> do-install, but that doesn't work if there are do-install option helpers
>> because those get run after the main do-install target.
>>
>
> It looks smilar to the issue I mentioned in PR 206019. It's also caused by
> generated plist, but in that case it is a python port.
It's a related problem. In this case, the plist is getting created by
940:add-plist-post, which happens a lot later than post-install.
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