Re: [sabayon] Sabayon for RHEL 4

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 12:20 -0500, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> 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:
>
> Is there anything else I can look at or do?  Is using sabayon-apply on
> RHEL 4 etc., a lost cause?

You also need to put:
  include "$(HOME)/.gconf.path.mandatory"
in /etc/gconf/2/local-madatory.path, and:
  include "$(HOME)/.gconf.path.defaults"
in /etc/gconf/2/local-defaults.path
on the client machine.

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