Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] what keys does gnomemeeting set through gconf?

[Jean-Christophe Dubois <jcd tribudubois net>]

Isn't gnomemeeting providing a "gnomemeeting-config-tool" that is able
to set/reset the Gconf database to a reasonable state. At least I am
getting this tool on my Mandrake system and I had to run it when I tried
to upgrade from 1.0.2 to 1.2. I then had to rerun it when I downgraded
to 1.0.2 (because the webcam stopped working with 1.2).

JC

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 06:57 -0800, Christopher Marshall wrote:
> I have a question about what keys gnomemeeting sets through gconf during the "make install" step.
> 
> First, the reason I am asking is that I am having problems building a binary slackware package
> from gnomemeeting.
> 
> I have two machines running slackware 10.0, kernel 2.4.26.  Let's call them A and B.
> 
> I compile gnomemeeting on A and capture it as a binary slackware package.  Everything works fine
> on A.
> 
> When I install the package on B, however, I get the gconf error when I try to start up
> gnomemeeting.
> 
> Since slackware packages are (as far as this example is concerned, anyway) straight-forward
> gzipped tars, I am essentially doing this:
> 
> on A:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
> make
> make install DESTDIR=/usr/build
> cd /usr/build
> tar c . | gzip -c > ../gnomemeeting.tgz
> cd /
> tar xvzf usr/gnomemeeting.tgz
> 
> on B:
> (copy gnomemeeting tp /tmp/gnomeeting.tgz)
> tar xvzf gnomemeeting.tgz
> 
> Then gnomemeeting will work fine on A and hits the gconf problem on B.  I have exactly the same
> version of slackware-10.0 installed on A, and B.
> 
> Interestingly, the same thing happens if A and B are just different root partitions on the same
> machine (I usually setup two independent root partitions on my machines to ease major upgrades).
> 
> I have started reading about gconf and I see that it is a registry database of some sort.  So I am
> guessing that during the "make install DESTDIR=/usr/build" step, the gnomemeeting build process is
> setting keys in my gconf database that have to be available for gnomemeeting to start.  To fix my
> binary package I need to know what keys are being set and arrange to set them in an install script
> inside the slackware package.
> 
> Could someone explain which keys are set and what they mean so I can write a proper install
> script?
> 
> Chris Marshall
> 
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