Re: gconftool in Makefile.am

[Jens Finke <jens eknif de>]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > in the Makefile.am in top srcdir, there are the following lines:
> >
> > install-data-local:
> >         GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=$(GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE) gconftool \
> > --makefile-install-rule $(top_srcdir)/$(schema_DATA)
> >
> > What is the purpose of this command? Isn't it sufficient to copy the
> > schema file to $(sysconfdir)/gconf/schemas? The problem with this is, that
> > it only works if you install as root, which you normally don't do when
> > building rpms. Do we really need this?
>
> GConf likes to install schema files by itself; it needs to update its
> running database and do other sorts of magic.  So we cannot do without
> that command.
>
> I don't remember what the Ximian RPMS do to build; you may want to
> take a look.  I guess we could also ask Havoc about it :)

Ximian makes it very easy AFAICS. They just don't include eog-0.6.0 in the
gnome-beta-1.4 release. :-)

> (We'll be moving away from GConf in the near future; I want to use
> bonobo-conf instead).

Yes good idea. Because the rpm building is not that urgent, we should
leave everything like it is now.

   Jens