GConf .schema packaging procedure

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Oct 24 16:56:10 UTC 2008


Ville Skyttä (ville.skytta at 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




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