Bug 190798 – app-text/gnome-doc-utils incorrectly stores .pyc files in /usr/share/

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description SpanKY 2007-08-30 17:18:28 UTC]

it is a FHS violation for non-portable binary files to be stored in /usr/share/

app-text/gnome-doc-utils sticks .pyc/.pyo files in there which causes problems obviously when upgrading python versions

$ qfile /usr/share/xml2po/ -v
app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.10.3 (/usr/share/xml2po)
$ ls /usr/share/xml2po/*.pyc
/usr/share/xml2po/docbook.pyc  /usr/share/xml2po/empty.pyc  /usr/share/xml2po/gs.pyc  /usr/share/xml2po/ubuntu.pyc  /usr/share/xml2po/xhtml.pyc

[Comment 1 Joe Peterson (RETIRED) 2007-10-01 06:38:18 UTC]

This also causes gnome-desktop to have access violations (sandbox) on FreeBSD if python is upgraded since last installing this package.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2007-10-01 07:41:11 UTC]

not a BSD-specific problem ... it's hit plenty of people on Linux as well

[Comment 3 Arun Raghavan (RETIRED) 2008-04-14 20:09:01 UTC]

Created attachment 149744 [details, diff]
patch to install xml2po modes to /usr/lib/python-x.y/site-packages

This patch should fix the problem. Also filed upstream at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528099

[Comment 4 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-05-28 06:57:33 UTC]

So this is safe to go in? Upstream has yet to comment on it but Gilles pinged them a week ago...

Thanks

[Comment 5 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2008-06-01 22:33:32 UTC]

looks fine, commited to the tree in -r1

[Comment 6 hirakendu 2009-05-03 17:07:33 UTC]

The current ebuild in portage, gnome-doc-utils-0.16.1, will fail to emerge due to the trivial reason that the patch file doesn't exist. Either rename the file gnome-doc-utils-0.16.1-fhs.patch in files/ directory to 0.16.0 or update the ebuild from ${PN}-0.16.0-fhs.patch to ${P}-fhs.patch.

[Comment 7 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-05-03 17:10:57 UTC]

fixed, next time please open a new bug though as it's a different issue.