Re: [PATCH] account for non-existant update-*-database

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 07:57:49PM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Filippo,
> 
> > I've noticed a bug in bluez-gnome when update-*-database programs are not
> > present (i.e. $UPDATE_*_DATABASE is "" thus install-data-hook fails), the
> > following patch (or something similar) should work:
> 
> call --disable-*-update should be a good thing for packages. And then
> have some post-install routines. Not doing the update is really a
> problem, because it limits the functionality. So producing an error
> seems fine to me.

I agree, note though that in this case the error is "permission denied" since
make will try to execute a directory (e.g. $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/mime) when
UPDATE_*_DATABASE is "" which is not much straightforward.

filippo
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