packages moving from gconf to gsettings

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Mon Apr 18 16:25:54 UTC 2011


On 04/13/2011 03:38 PM, Julian Sikorski wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I was just trying to update gnome-mplayer (not in fedora, but that is
> irrelevant) which migrated from gconf to gsettings. The problem is, that
> the standard scriptlets [1] do not run on upgrades, leaving the package
> in a not working state (not running even).
> I think it would be good to establish some guidelines to handle such
> cases, since packages moving from gconf to gsettings are likely to
> become more and more common.
>
> Cheers,
> Julian
>
> [1]
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets#GSettings_Schema
>

You should probably send this to the packaging list
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging


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