Re: help with gconftool and schema installations.
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:08:41PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:59:46AM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:48:14AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Is scrollkeeper called by gconftool directly, or called separatedly by
> > > some other magic ? I didn't find a way to add two schemas simultaneously
> > > in the meager gconftool documentation, but maybe concatenating the files
> > > will do ?
> >
> > Scrollkeeper has nothing to do with gconf. I only mentioned it because
> > you said installing the schemas took a long time, and it doesn't. What
> > takes time is the scrollkeeper update, which is totally unrelated.
>
> Scrollkeeper is for installing doc, not schemas. You can call twice
> gconf install, and then call scrollkeeper.
Mmm, but i don't call scrollkeeper anywhere in the postinst, but then
maybe debhelper or something does.
> > > And when the package removes the files which gconftool adds to the gconf
> > > database, does this cause problem ? Or is it that the schemas are never
> > > used anymore after they are added ?
> >
> > Afaik, they are left in the gconf "registry" even in the original
> > .schemas file has been uninstalled.
>
> Yep. Look into /etc/gconf/gconf.xml* dirs
But then, is it needed to install the original .schemas ? Or can we just
add the stuff to the registry, and erase them afterwards ? Is there
really a need to keep two copies of it around ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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