Le lun 21/06/2004 à 00:34, Havoc Pennington a écrit : > The patch does the reload in the signal handler - probably not good, > especially in this case if you're installing a series of packages > getting a second signal is not unlikely. Yes, that's what I thought. However gconfd is quite fast to reload its databases so it won't hassle the system (we have much more obnoxious stuff in packages postinsts, see e.g. update-mozilla-chrome). Of course I'd like to see it done a better way. > Needs to just write to a pipe or something to wake up the mainloop and > do the reload there... I'm trying to think of a program with an example > of this, dbus-daemon does it but that doesn't use GMainLoop. An example would be appreciated. > > As I see it, defaults and mandatory values as generated by gconftool in > > postinstall scripts are not configuration files which users should > > change, but system defaults. > > Why are packages changing defaults/mandatory though (outside of > /schemas?) > > Factory defaults should be changed in packages by patching the .schemas > file. I've already been told not to do that, but that's what Debian are usually doing. However, if the system administrator wants to change these defaults, he has to run gconftool again. Furthermore, the defaults are generated automatically by gconftool from the schemas, and this generation takes place in /etc, which is very bad. This has to go to /var/lib. > If we have to make a change here I'd add a "schemas" source that's read > before the "defaults" source, and leave "defaults" in /etc Why should it be read before? Shouldn't defaults set by the system administrators be read before defaults introduced by the schemas? > However I'm pretty concerned that by changing anything here we are > making things even more confusing than they already are. The > defaults/schemas mess is the single most confusing thing about gconf. > > http://log.ometer.com/2004-03.html#1 > > Of course changing this for Debian only or changing it in one way now > and another way later will make the confusion worse. We should be sure > we're going in the right direction. That's exactly why we are asking. > That isn't the case I don't think. The admin default is /foo/bar. The > schema default is stored in the schema object at /schemas/foo/bar. The > package should not touch the admin default. But gconftool already creates %gconf.xml files in /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults. Managing these files for both schema->default generation and administration is a nightmare. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin mouette ens-lyon org `. `' joss debian org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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