GConf .schema packaging procedure

[Jonathan Roberts]

Hi,

Could anyone point me at some guidelines for packaging .schemas files?

I'm packaging:

http://jonrob.fedorapeople.org/RPMS/go-home-applet.spec

And review bug is at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451768

.schemas is being installed in /etc/ for this package, triggering
non-conffile-in-etc warning.

Kindly,

Jon

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 13:46 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  Could anyone point me at some guidelines for packaging .schemas files?
>  
>  I'm packaging:
>  
>  http://jonrob.fedorapeople.org/RPMS/go-home-applet.spec
>  
>  And review bug is at:
>  
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451768
>  
>  .schemas is being installed in /etc/ for this package, triggering
>  non-conffile-in-etc warning.
>   

I think most of it should be covered in the packaging guidelines, but
what I always do is to find a simple spec to copy from, e.g. this one

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gcalctool/devel/gcalctool.spec?v...

There is a few parts here, you need to have %post, %preun and %preun
sections that handle the installation and deinstallation, and
corresponding Requires for GConf2. 

Schema files are definitively not conffiles, so the non-conffile warning
should be ignored.

[Ville Skyttä]

On Friday 24 October 2008, Matthias Clasen wrote:

>  Schema files are definitively not conffiles, so the non-conffile
> warning
>  should be ignored. 
There's a rpmlint bug open about this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/235487

Repeating the question from the bug: if they are not configuration files, why 
are they being installed in /etc/gconf/schemas instead of let's 
say /usr/share/gconf/schemas?  FWIW, Debian installs them to the latter.

[Bill Nottingham]

Ville Skyttä (ville.skytta(a)iki.fi) said: 
>  On Friday 24 October 2008, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>  
>  > Schema files are definitively not conffiles, so the non-conffile warning
>  > should be ignored.
>  
>  There's a rpmlint bug open about this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/235487
>  
>  Repeating the question from the bug: if they are not configuration files, why 
>  are they being installed in /etc/gconf/schemas instead of let's 
>  say /usr/share/gconf/schemas?  FWIW, Debian installs them to the latter. 
Well, once they're processed, the mandatory/defaults/so forth are all
in /etc, as they should be as system-specific configuration.

Bill

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 19:35 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>  On Friday 24 October 2008, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>  
>  > Schema files are definitively not conffiles, so the non-conffile warning
>  > should be ignored.
>  
>  There's a rpmlint bug open about this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/235487
>  
>  Repeating the question from the bug: if they are not configuration files, why 
>  are they being installed in /etc/gconf/schemas instead of let's 
>  say /usr/share/gconf/schemas?  FWIW, Debian installs them to the latter.
>   
Because changing this now would be a giant amount of busy work, while a
gconf replacement is already under development, which will do away with
the need for schema installation.