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[opensuse-packaging] Re: [opensuse-gnome] Using scrollkeeper: /var/lib/scrollkeeper missing?
  • From: JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:59:22 -0400
  • Message-id: <1187809163.30067.158.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 03:45 -0400, Michel Salim wrote:
> 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?

Probably not, we should probably just fix the package to create the dir,
although the long term opensuse and upstream direction has been to kill
this package with extreme prejuidice.

-JP
-- 
JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Novell, Inc.

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