GConf .schema packaging procedure

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Fri Oct 24 17:02:35 UTC 2008


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.




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