On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:48:55PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 04:13:10PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:02:08PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 08:34:20AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > 1) I have two schemas, and calling gconftool is rather slow, so it would > > > > make better sense to call it one time only with both schemas. I suppose > > > > this is possible, will be reading doc and such. > > > > > > Slow? It's quite quick, actually. What takes more time is > > > scrollkeeper-update. You can do it as you want, if you have checked that > > > gconftool likes more than one input file, go ahead... > > > > Yep, the scrollkeeper stuff is the one slowing the install done, and it > > is not really needed to run it twice, is it ? > > Scroll-keeper is only needed once.
Is scrollkeeper called by gconftool directly, or called separatedly by some other magic ? I didn't find a way to add two schemas simultaneously in the meager gconftool documentation, but maybe concatenating the files will do ? > > > > 2) If we install the schemas in the postinst, should we also uninstall > > > > them in the postrm or something such ? > > > > > > I don't think so. I we need to, please file a bug against gtetrinet :) > > > > Is it or is it not a problem if the schema stays there even after the > > removal of the schema file ? Well, the schema file is a conffile, so it > > can stay, but it should at least be removed on purges, and then gconfd > > will not know it has been removed, will it ? > > > > Of course, i suppose more gconftool familiar people will have to respond > > here, since gconftool's documentation is sketchy (no manpage for > > example). > > AFAIK there is no way for schemas to be removed from the gconf > database. ALso, removing them will lead to problems with users that > have options listed in those schemas in their own config files. And when the package removes the files which gconftool adds to the gconf database, does this cause problem ? Or is it that the schemas are never used anymore after they are added ? In any case, a dpkg --purge will remove those schemas, as it should, but gconf will not know about it, and as you said, the corresponding options will not be removed from users files. > I think that this should be done, but for that a lot of hacking in > gconfd should be done (so it removes the users prefs when the schema > is deregistered) Lot of work then, should a bug report against gconf be filled in the gnome bugzilla or something such ? Friendly, Sven Luther
