GConf schema packaging guidelines

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Wed Mar 2 09:02:59 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 20:48 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> David Malcolm wrote :
> 
> > How should we be dealing with GConf schema in spec files?
> 
> In addition to the scriplets you mention, there is also the disabling of
> the schema installation during the build, which can be done either by a
> configure option, or by an env var export before the make install stage.
> Dunno which one should be common practise as I often see both been
> redundantly being included. I personally prefer the configure option.

	The configure option is slightly less likely to work because it
requires packages to add AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2 to configure whereas the
GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL env var is handled by gconftool
itself.

Cheers,

Mark.




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