[Mageia-dev] rpmbuild error

Mon Apr 9 14:03:58 CEST 2012

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:57, paiiou <paiiou at free.fr> wrote:
+> I try to create the new packages relative to Xfce pre10.
+> For this:
+> - I created a local mirror from Mageia 2 cauldron ).
+> - I use the tools of mageia (rpmbuild and iurt).
+> - I add the new packages in the mirror, according to their creation,
+>  by updating the mirror with the gendistrib tool.
+>
+> This works very well for the packages (according to the order indicated by Xfce):
+> libxfce4util, xfconf, libxfce4ui, garcon, exo, xfce4-panel.
+>
+> But for thunar I have a fatal error:
+> /home/georges/rpm/BUILDROOT/thunar-1.3.1-3.mga2.x86_64/usr/share/applications/
+> thunar-settings.desktop: error: (will be fatal in the future): value
+> "FileManager" in key "Categories" in group "Desktop Entry" requires another
+> category to be present among the following categories: System;FileTools
+> Error on file "/home/georges/rpm/BUILDROOT/thunar-1.3.1-3.mga2.x86_64/usr/share/
+> applications/thunar-settings.desktop": Failed to validate the created desktop
+> file error: Bad exit status from /home/georges/rpm/tmp/rpm-tmp.6MrRb6 (%install)
+>
+> Any idee?
+>
+
+Yes, as the message says
+/usr/share/applications/thunar-settings.desktop is not valid
+See http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
+FileManager is an Additionnal category and can only be used together
+with System or FileTools
+