Bug 15295 – Realplayer installs files into the root directory.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matt Caesar 2003-02-07 18:42:47 UTC]

realplayer conditionally installed a kde file under
/apps/Multimedia/realplayer.desktop instead of
/usr/kde/3.x/share/apps/Multimedia... (?)

hotrod realplayer # qpkg -l realplayer
media-video/realplayer-8-r4 *

CONTENTS:
/opt
/opt/bin

... <snip> ...

/apps
/apps/Multimedia
/apps/Multimedia/realplayer.desktop

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-02-07 23:39:37 UTC]

Created attachment 8033 [details, diff]
fixes problem with installing shortcuts in root dir

a couple of problems with realplayer-8-r4 as pointed out by Matt. This patch
fixes the broken ebuild.

1. No IUSE defined in the ebuild. The patch above adds the line
2. ${KDEDIR} is empty unless you inherit kdebase, which creates all sorts of
problems. So just use /usr/share/applnk as the KDEDIR.
3. ${GNOMEDIR} never existed or defined anywhere. Using gnome1's Gnome
directory, /usr/share/gnome

This has got to be an urgent issue. How come no one tested this before?
Especially the ${GNOMEDIR} bit. I tried grepping for any ebuilds that used
GNOMEDIR and I couldn't come up with anything!

[Comment 2 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-02-07 23:41:22 UTC]

adding myself to cc.

[Comment 3 Matt Caesar 2003-02-08 17:42:59 UTC]

The patch seems to work well with KDE and Gnome. I found the links for realplayer in both the KDE and Gnome start menus. 

[Comment 4 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-02-09 22:04:31 UTC]

thanks guys, added to portage in -r5 :)