[Fedora-packaging] Re: GConf schema packaging guidelines

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:00:29PM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 08:42 -0500, Toshio wrote:
> 
> > I think the intent is to remove the old schema from gconf before
> > installing the new schema.  So I think this %pre script would work::
> >   %pre
> >   # For GConf apps
> >   if [ "$1" -gt 1]; then
> 
> Missing space between "1" and "]" :)
> 
Noticed that when I started testing :-)

> >     export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source`
> >     gconftool-2 --makefile-uninstall-rule \
> >       %{_sysconfdir}/gconf/schemas/%{name}.schemas >/dev/null || :
> >   fi
> > 
> > Is that wrong (or my assumption that we're trying to clean up the old
> > schema?)  If it's good, then maybe the scriptlets in the spectemplates
> > (fedora-rpmdevtools) should be changed.
> 
> Based on a brief look, the above would fail if the schema filename has
> changed (or if the package has been renamed: %{name} is the name of the
> new package, not old).
> 

Good point.  So schema names would need to be hardcoded in.  (This is
related to the second point raised in anvil's email, yes?)

Testing has also revealed that the %preun will still need to have a gconf
uninstall only rule to handle the uninstall case... %pre will only handle
the upgrade case.

-Toshio