Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Various Bugs

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 20/08/12 17:13, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Eugen Dedu
> <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>  wrote:
> > On 14/08/12 22:16, hohyeis eml cc wrote:
> > > Using the current repository versions, ALSA works for input and output.
> > >
> > >
> > > I found out that the 'make install' of ekiga gives the gconf errors due to
> > > a fault which is circumvented by running as root. Even when everything is
> > > owned by another user, it is still necessary to run as root, at least as set
> > > up in Debian. If we don't find out more about how to fix this, it would be
> > > good to describe in the build documentation.
> > >
> > > The error messages are like this:
> > >
> > >    /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ekiga.schemas '/usr/local/etc/gconf/schemas'
> > > WARNING: failed to install schema
> > > `/schemas/apps/ekiga/devices/audio/output_device', locale `lv': Unable to
> > > store a value at key '/schemas/
> >
> >
> > Indeed, I have always used --disable-schemas...
> >
> > This appears because of the command:
> > $ GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=xml:merged:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults gconftool-2
> > --makefile-install-rule ekiga.schemas 2>&1>  /dev/null
> >
> > If the schema cannot be installed in /etc, then probably it should not be
> > installed at all.
>
> The way we deal with this in Fedora packaging is the following.
>
> For "make install" we do:
>
> export GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL=1
> make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot}
> unset GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL

In debian we use ./configure --disable-schemas-install, which is the 
same thing.

> Then in pre/post install package scriptlets we do:
>
> %pre
> if [ "$1" -gt 1 ] ; then
> export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source`
> gconftool-2 --makefile-uninstall-rule \
> %{_sysconfdir}/gconf/schemas/ekiga.schemas>  /dev/null || :
> fi
>
> %post
> export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source`
> gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule \
> %{_sysconfdir}/gconf/schemas/ekiga.schemas>  /dev/null || :

The last step works because it is done as root.

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Eugen