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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I think ~/.cache is a good place :-)

Yes, I do agree. I'm not saying at all that u-a-l shouldn't look into
this. Just that it needs to fall back to looking into the click package
dir if there is no cached symlink.

> and would delay starting up of legacy apps

How would that be? If there's no symlink in ~/.cache/ the startup
currently does not work at all. With a fallback to pkgdir it would work,
just a tad slower (that's why we have the cache). But again, you can't
rely that all user's ~/.cache/ directories are accessible at the time of
installing a click (that's the use case that doesn't affect current
phone so much, but convergence, so is low-prio), but the issue which
*does* affect the phone is installing a click and trying to start it in
the current session (as the upstart hook doesn't run then).

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1333215

Title:
  "Unable to find keyfile for application": Does not look for .desktop
  files in click pkgdir

Status in Ubuntu Application Launcher:
  Incomplete
Status in “click” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “ubuntu-app-launch” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  For testing/autopkgtest I want/need to run click apps and their tests
  in a schroot or container, as the turnaround with real phones and the
  emulator is way too large. But in a container, ubuntu-app-launch fails
  with

  $ ubuntu-app-launch `ubuntu-app-triplet com.ubuntu.calculator`

  ** (process:766): WARNING **: Unable to find keyfile for application 'com.ubuntu.calculator_calculator_1.3.283'
  init: application-legacy (com.ubuntu.calculator_calculator_1.3.283-1403523098604203) pre-start process (770) terminated with status 1

  In strace I see that it looks for the .desktop file in the following
  locations:

    /home/ubuntu/.cache/ubuntu-app-launch/desktop/com.ubuntu.calculator_calculator_1.3.283.desktop
    /home/ubuntu/.local/share/applications/com.ubuntu.calculator_calculator_1.3.283.desktop
    /usr/local/share/applications/com.ubuntu.calculator_calculator_1.3.283.desktop
    /usr/share/applications/com.ubuntu.calculator_calculator_1.3.283.desktop

  but not in the click dir:

  $ click pkgdir com.ubuntu.calculator
  /opt/click.ubuntu.com/.click/users/@all/com.ubuntu.calculator

  The workaround is to create the symlink manually, then it works:

  $  ln -s `click pkgdir com.ubuntu.calculator`/*.desktop .cache/ubuntu-app-launch/desktop/`ubuntu-app-triplet com.ubuntu.calculator`.desktop
  $ ubuntu-app-launch `ubuntu-app-triplet com.ubuntu.calculator`

  But that's certainly not something that autopkgtest should do.

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