Re: New schemas aren't picked up by running gconfd-2 [was Re: rawhide report: 20060125 changes]

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 12:21 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 26 janvier 2006 à 11:12 +0000, Mark McLoughlin a écrit :
> > > Isn't it possible for you to send SIGHUP in the post-installation
> > > scripts?
> > 
> > 	Yeah, but it would be easier if gconftool-2 did it rather than adding
> > it to each and every package.
> 
> Debian ships a gconf-schemas script that takes care of everything that
> is needed for a package post-installation. It takes the schemas in a
> specific directory (in /usr/share instead of /etc), registers them to a
> specific GConf source (in /var/lib instead of /etc), and runs the
> killall -HUP, all of that without cluttering /root/.gconf like gconftool
> normally does.

	There shouldn't be a need for all distros to have something like this -
GConf upstream should be able to ship a tool that can do everything
needed to cleanly install schemas which is used both from Makefiles and
packages post-install sections.

	Now, that we could take the Debian script and make it suitable for
upstream, and then change all the Makefiles and packages on other
distros to use it ... or we could just make gconftool-2 do the right
thing ... ?

Cheers,
Mark.