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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is portage trying to tell me?
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:21:31
Message-Id: 1185142437.3067.16.camel@blackwidow.nbk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] What is portage trying to tell me? by Kevin O'Gorman
1 On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 13:38 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
2 > I seem to see this from time to time when I look at the emerge logs
3 > that are emailed to me by portage, and I never know what to make of
4 > it.
5 > This one is from kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.5:
6 >
7 > LOG: preinst
8 > /usr/kde/3.5/share/applications/kde/panel_appearance.desktop: required key "Name" not found --
9 >
10 > required key "Type" not found
11 > Why is this allowed to occur? What am I expected to do about it, and
12 > how would I know that, given that I'm a user, not a developer?
13 >
14
15 FDO .desktop files should have "Type" and "Name" keys, e.g:
16
17 [Desktop Entry]
18 Encoding=UTF-8
19 Version=1.0
20 Type=Application
21 ^^^^
22 Terminal=false
23 Exec=Xephyr -screen 1024x768 -query flea -once :2
24 Name[en_US]=flea
25 Icon[en_US]=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-xterm.png
26 Name=flea
27 ^^^^
28 Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-xterm.png
29
30 So looks like whatever is installing/manipulating the .desktop file is
31 not seeing those keys. Why is it allowed to occur? I suppose it's not
32 allowed and that's why the program is complaining. What are you
33 expected to do? Likely you'd search/create a bug at bugs.gentoo.org.
34 Could either be a problem with the .ebuild or ustream. I'm guessing the
35 latter. How would you know "that"? Not sure what "that" is. Users
36 aren't expected to know everything (neither are developers in fact).
37 When in doubt, do as you did and ask.
38
39 --
40 Albert W. Hopkins
41
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Re: [gentoo-user] What is portage trying to tell me? Rick Harris <rickharris@×××××××××××××.org>