Re: [sabayon] Sabayon for RHEL 4

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak rogers com>]

On Thu, 2006-12-01 at 10:30 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> I don't think any of these are actually needed just for sabayon-apply.
> If you force-install the sabayon (not sabayon-admin) package on RHEL4,
> does it work?

Sorry for the late reply - I didn't try this out until yesterday.

I installed sabayon-2.12.1-1 from FC4 extras:

rpm -ivh --nodeps sabayon*

I noticed that part of it was installed to /usr/lib/python2.4, so I made
a symlink in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-pacakages:

[root vmcentos site-packages]ln
-s /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sabayon .

The first time I fired it up after making the symlink, I saw an error
about "python FutureWarninig" or something to that effect.  I didn't
make note of it, unfortunately.

I copied everything in /etc/desktop-profiles on the FC4 machine to the
same location on the CentOS 4 box.  I edited the users.xml so that my
Test profile would be applied to the correct test user.

When I actually logged in with the test account, none of the profile
settings were applied.  I can see that the gconf directories were
created in the users's home directory, but it appears none of them are
actually being used.  Here's the log from /var/log/messages:

Feb 26 11:44:39 vmcentos gdm(pam_unix)[2276]: session opened for user
ksandhu by (uid=0)
Feb 26 11:44:41 vmcentos gconfd (ksandhu-4099): starting (version
2.8.1), pid 4099 user 'ksandhu'
Feb 26 11:44:41 vmcentos gconfd (ksandhu-4099): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only
configuration source at position 0
Feb 26 11:44:41 vmcentos gconfd (ksandhu-4099): Resolved address
"xml:readwrite:/home/ksandhu/.gconf" to a writable configuration source
at position 1
Feb 26 11:44:41 vmcentos gconfd (ksandhu-4099): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only
configuration source at position 2
Feb 26 11:44:57 vmcentos gconfd (ksandhu-4099): Resolved address
"xml:readwrite:/home/ksandhu/.gconf" to a writable configuration source
at position 0

sabayon-apply looks like it worked, but gconf is ignoring everything.

Is there anything else I can look at or do?  Is using sabayon-apply on
RHEL 4 etc., a lost cause?

Thanks,

Regards,

-- 
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Linux 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 i686 GNU/Linux 
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