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Re: gconf files in /etc ?



On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 13:06, Christian Marillat wrote:
> >> "TK" == Takuo KITAME <kitame@northeye.org> writes:
> 
> >>>>>> In article <[🔎] 20020217003706.H19005@cyberhqz.com>,
> >>>>>> "RM" == Ryan Murray <rmurray@cyberhqz.com> wrote...:
> RM> [1  <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>]
> RM> Should the gconf files made by gconftool be shipped by packages, and if so,
> RM> should they be marked as configuration files?
> 
> RM> gtranslator generates them at build time, but I'm not certain they should be
> RM> shipped with the package, and perhaps they shouldn't be shipped by anything?
> 
> > Do not include /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/* 
> > You should include only schema file 'gtranslator.schema' as 
> >  /etc/gconf/schemas/gtranslator.schema
> > and run gconftool --makefile-install-rule in postinst script.
> 
> Is there a good reason to generate this file in the postinst ?
> 
> I did some test with gnome-terminal2, and the file is exactly the same
> if generated during the build process or in the postinst. So i've
> packaged the file generated during the build process.

GConftool notifies the gconf daemon that a new schema has been added, it
is very much necessary to have it in postinst, even if you can have it
at build time as well.

Cheers

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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