rpmlint: "non-conffile-in-etc"

[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