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Bug #1660342
Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1660342

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Naël (nathanael-naeri) wrote on 2017-01-31:

Setup XDG Special User Directories in the test environment (plus change HOME to the test environment and include a trash can) (v2) Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain)

The patch I included in comment 2 is wrong, my bad. I probably got mixed up when I tested it yesterday.

Running xdg-user-dirs-update after setting HOME to the test environment /tmp/dd-<temp> does not create XDG Special User Directories in this directory as I thought it did, because xdg-user-dirs-update gets the user's home directory from HOME only if it cannot get it from /etc/passwd (see function get_home_dir in its source code, file xdg-user-dirs-update.c).

It does create a file user-dirs.dirs in the new XDG_CONFIG_HOME though, since there isn't any. But since the paths defined in this file are relative to $HOME, and that no XDG Special User Directories were created in the new HOME, the paths point to non-existent directories.

So we have to do everything by hand instead of using xdg-user-dirs-update. I attach here a new, hopefully correct version of the patch I suggested in comment 2 to fix bugs 1660174 1660224 1660342. I have also changed the bug's description, section [Fix].