Julia: Stray icon-theme.cache file in the 1.2 Linux release

[cafaxo]

I downloaded the official Linux release of Julia 1.2 (julia-1.2.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz). Compared to the 1.1.1 release, there is an additional file icon-theme.cache in the extracted archive at share/icons/hicolor. This file was probably shipped accidentally.

[simeonschaub]

I ran into the same thing. This file caused a problem installing Julia 1.2 on Manjaro for me.

[fredrikekre]

8f1479bc1affb4e3216403874623ea92cc4eed6b maybe?

[ararslan]

Sure, it'd be good to remove a stray file that isn't needed.

This file caused a problem installing Julia 1.2 on Manjaro for me.

That doesn't really make sense. How could this cause an installation problem?

[simeonschaub]

The problem was that the file already existed on my system and I was trying to unpack the official binary to my root directory, but the script wouldn't overwrite this file. (I was using the julia-bin package from the AUR) Manually deleting the file solved the issue, but I wonder if other package managers might run into similar issues

[aytekinar]

That doesn't really make sense. How could this cause an installation problem?

Because of a conflict with an already existing file in the system path, should the package maintainers choose to install under /usr rather than /opt.

The problem was that the file already existed on my system and I was trying to unpack the official binary to my root directory, but the script wouldn't overwrite this file. (I was using the julia-bin package from the AUR) Manually deleting the file solved the issue, but I wonder if other package managers might run into similar issues

If you like my version, you can use it with:

git clone https://github.com/aytekinar/PKGBUILDs /tmp/pkgbuilds
cd /tmp/pkgbuilds/julia-stable
makepkg --syncdeps --clean --cleanbuild --nocheck --install

[o01eg]

Same issue when installing 1.2.0 on Gentoo.