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From: Alex Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: kdelibs-bin: kbuildsycoca writes to /usr/share,
should be somewhere under /var
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Package: kdelibs-bin
Version: 4:3.2.0-0+cvs20040204+cm
Severity: normal
The program /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca createas a cache file as
/usr/share/services/sycoca. This is in violation of FHS section 4
and thus in violation with Debian policy. Please use a file under
/var/lib or /var/cache for this purpose.
p.s. The bug is present in the 'official' packages too
Alex.
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Versions of packages kdelibs-bin depends on:
ii kdelibs4 4:3.2.0-0+cvs20040204+cm KDE core libraries
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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Alex writes:
> On Wednesday 10 March 2004 00:47, Josh Metzler wrote:
>> I'm not familiar with kbuildsycoca. But, I don't have a
>> /usr/share/services/sycoca, and running kbuildsycoca as a normal
>> user did not create one for me. Do you run it as root? With any
>> command-line options?
> I used
> # kbuildsycoca --global --noincremental
> because i got errors all the time, and this solved it
You shouldn't do this. I don't know where you got the idea that this
would fix anything... If you undo those weird changes, and you still
have problems, then please file a bug report about those.
cheers
domi
