[opensuse-packaging] Re: [opensuse-gnome] Using scrollkeeper: /var/lib/scrollkeeper missing?

On 20/08/07, Stanislav Brabec wrote:

Michel Salim wrote:

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On 20/08/07, Stanislav Brabec wrote:

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Michel Salim wrote:

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I'm currently working on packaging a GNOME application that installs OMF files, and thus requires scrollkeeper to be run on post-install / post-uninstall.

I am getting segfaults, however, which turns out to be because /var/lib/scrollkeeper was not present! i.e. the scrollkeeper database was never initialized.

This is probably a bug with scrollkeeper (shouldn't it initialize its database post-install, and own /var/lib/scrollkeeper?), but should I handle this differently, i.e. run a test before running scrollkeeper-update?

AFAIK, in new SuSE versions scrollkeeper is only a build time dependence and you don't need to call anything in %post/%postun. In old SuSE versions SuSEconfig was updating the database if a flag file in /var/lib was created in %post/%postun.

The segfault you experience is most probably: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=258576

It is -- I used exactly the same workaround. Any reason why scrollkeeper is not patched to just own and create /var/lib/scrollkeeper?

Not creating /var/lib/scrollkeeper was a bug, which is now fixed.

Why to add new user account and another dangerous sgid application? These data were updated by root after the (un)installation and should never be changed by users.

Hm. the %post-un and %post scriplets are run as root anyway, so there is no need for a new sgid application, right?

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You should not call scrollkeeper in %install phase. But it is not so easy as it should be: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237140

It was in %postinstall. Should I take it off from there too?

Yes. In new SuSE versions, it is not used any more.

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Doesn't yelp require scrollkeeper, though? How do us poor GNOME users get our documentation indexed? :)

I guess that no. I don't understand this stuff, but I guess, that yelp uses index created by scrollkeeper-preinstall during compilation. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-devel-list/2006-July/msg00014.html

Ah OK. simpler to maintain the spec that way anyway. It's actually a modification of Jan's drivel package, so I'm waiting to hear from him before uploading it. Since we're at it, how about update-mime-database? Also not needed? Thanks, -- Michel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org