rpmlint: "non-conffile-in-etc"

[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek]

Hi,

I'm packaging gnome-main-menu applet from SVN and have only one issue
displayed by rpmlint.

gnome-main-menu.i386: W: non-conffile-in-etc
/etc/gconf/schemas/application-browser.schemas
gnome-main-menu.i386: W: non-conffile-in-etc /etc/gconf/schemas/slab.schemas

In bugzilla's review request [1] non-conffile-in-etc was fixed by
marking file as %config.

compiz [2] has gconf schemas files too, but it has no %config and
schemas normally in %files.

Please, tell me, what should I do. My SPEC [3].

1| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188359
 2| http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/compiz/F-8/compiz.spec?view=markup
 3| http://phpfi.com/291200

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:47:19PM +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm packaging gnome-main-menu applet from SVN and have only one issue
> displayed by rpmlint.
>
> gnome-main-menu.i386: W: non-conffile-in-etc
> /etc/gconf/schemas/application-browser.schemas
> gnome-main-menu.i386: W: non-conffile-in-etc /etc/gconf/schemas/slab.schemas
>
> In bugzilla's review request [1] non-conffile-in-etc was fixed by
> marking file as %config.
>
> compiz [2] has gconf schemas files too, but it has no %config and
> schemas normally in %files.

The gconf schemas are not config files, so should not be marked as
%config and the rpmlint warning can be ignored.

The bug is certainly in gnome/gconf since those files should certainly
be in /usr/share (with a possible override in /etc).

--
Pat

[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek]

2008/1/21, Patrice Dumas :
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:47:19PM +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm packaging gnome-main-menu applet from SVN and have only one issue
> > displayed by rpmlint.
> >
> > gnome-main-menu.i386: W: non-conffile-in-etc
> > /etc/gconf/schemas/application-browser.schemas
> > gnome-main-menu.i386: W: non-conffile-in-etc /etc/gconf/schemas/slab.schemas
> >
> > In bugzilla's review request [1] non-conffile-in-etc was fixed by
> > marking file as %config.
> >
> > compiz [2] has gconf schemas files too, but it has no %config and
> > schemas normally in %files.
>
> The gconf schemas are not config files, so should not be marked as
> %config and the rpmlint warning can be ignored.
>
> The bug is certainly in gnome/gconf since those files should certainly
> be in /usr/share (with a possible override in /etc).
>
> --
> Pat
>
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Thanks for reply.
My package is ready for repo inclusion :> .

[Kevin Kofler]

Patrice Dumas <pertusus <at> free.fr> writes:
> The bug is certainly in gnome/gconf since those files should certainly
> be in /usr/share (with a possible override in /etc).

Interestingly, KConfig gets it wrong the opposite way, it puts the schemas 
into /usr/share/config.kcfg (OK) and the config files into /usr/share/config 
(not so OK).

Kevin Kofler

[Laurent Rineau]

On Monday 21 January 2008 18:37:28 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Patrice Dumas <pertusus <at> free.fr> writes:
> > The bug is certainly in gnome/gconf since those files should certainly
> > be in /usr/share (with a possible override in /etc).
>
> Interestingly, KConfig gets it wrong the opposite way, it puts the schemas
> into /usr/share/config.kcfg (OK) and the config files into
> /usr/share/config (not so OK).

lrineau@schtroumpf ~ $ kde-config --path config
/home/lrineau/.kde/share/config/:/etc/kde/:/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/:/usr/share/config/

That means that /usr/share/config is searched *last*. Config options are first 
searched in my home directory, then in /etc/kde, then 
in /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/, then eventually 
in /usr/share/config/.

So KConfig does it the right way. :-)