Le mercredi 04 janvier 2012, à 08:43 +0000, Nelson Marques a écrit :

2012/1/4 Vincent Untz :

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Hi Nelson,

Le dimanche 25 décembre 2011, à 19:04 +0000, Nelson Marques a écrit :

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Hi all,

MATE Desktop uses a fork of gconf called mateconf. This stuff uses the traditional schemas files and there's a few things I would like to ask from someone more proeficient in this ways to accomplish for openSUSE...

With gconf as far as I can tell, the schema files were created in /etc/gconf/foobar.schema and a macro we invocked would then move them to /usr/share/GConf/ and merge them up.

mateconf is pretty much the same... files are created in /etc/mateconf/schemas and later need to be moved to /usr/share/mateconf. Debian does it this way:

mkdir -p debian/mate-terminal/usr/share/mateconf/schemas mateconf-merge-schema "debian/mate-terminal/usr/share/mateconf/schemas/mate-terminal.schemas" \                                      --domain mate-terminal debian/mate-terminal/etc/mateconf/schemas/*.schemas rm -rf debian/mate-terminal/etc/mateconf/schemas/

What I would like to achieve was to make an rpm macro like the one we use for gconf schemas so we can handle this situations more efficiently on openSUSE, but I would also like to donate this macro to the 'mate-common' package, which is a set of tools used to build mate (it is BuildRequired in all packages, except for itself. It contains m4 macros alongside with other tools).

Anyone with power and know-how that can help me accomplish this ?

It's unclear to me: is mate-common based on some upstream tarball, or does it just contain some openSUSE specific bits?

Hi Vincent,

It looks to me that mate-common is a fork of gnome-common package.

Interesting. We don't need gnome-common to build most GNOME packages, though; it's generally only needed when building from git.

Currently it has a directory called 'distro' which includes some distribution utilities, just one actually, for Ubuntu and Arch Linux. It's a tiny script that merges the installed schemas into a new schema.

Note that we're not doing that for gconf in openSUSE; I'm actually unsure why it's done this way (why not just have one schema for each module, in that case?). So you can't reproduce exactly what we've been doing for gconf, but I guess a lot can still be shared.

The main interest would be to pass this script to a macro.

You can look at the macros.gconf2 file in the gconf2 source package. This is what defines the macros, and a lot of what's in there could be moved to your script, indeed. Sounds to me like you want to put in that script the content of what %find_gconf_schemas would expand to.

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If you're looking for a downstream-only solution: any reason to not do it exactly the way it's done for gconf?

If you're looking for an upstreamable solution: I'd think the directory where to put schema files could be a variable in the mateconf pkg-config file, and then all modules would use that variable.

As far as I can tell (I didn't had much experience with gconf), but while gconf installs several schemas, mate-conf installs several schemas that are merged (during %install) into one big schema called %{name}.schema and installed on %_datadir/mateconf/schemas.

Right. But, assuming mate-conf works like gconf, it doesn't matter much in the end, really, since the very end result will be the same. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org