gconftool-2 failing in rpm scriptlets?

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Wed Dec 22 15:19:46 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 15:32 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Under which circumstances might a GConf2 post-install scriptlet like
> this fail to create application's default settings unreproducibly?
> 
> export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE="$(gconftool-2 --get-default-source)"
> gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /etc/gconf/schemas/celestia.schemas &>/dev/null || :
> 
> If after package installation, the application's GConf2 defaults
> cannot be found in /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/, is that an
> indication that the post-install scriptlet was not executed at all
> (and e.g. Yum could be involved) or that only GConf2 failed somehow?
> 
> Theories, anyone?
> 

I don't have theories but AFAIK there are not known issues with
gconftool in %post

Havoc





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