[opensuse-packaging] GConf scritplets for dummies
Hallo. Because many people asks, I am trying to explain problems with gconf scriptlets in detail. After installation of any package with gconf schemas, one needs to update gconf database. It's easy to do it. Much more complicated situation occurs, when you want to upgrade any application - you need to remove obsolete keys, but not remove the new ones. With older versions of RPM, it was not possible at all, so we installed schemas and kept them forever. Now it is possible, so I created a new implementation. It is be available in openSUSE 10.3 and in GNOME:UNSTABLE. As a bonus, macros also create schemas part of file list for you - it could not happen, that you forget to install any schemas file (which can cause an application crash). Here is a simple howto. It also contains some common tricks you will need in packages: Preamble (i. e. initial set of lines; put it as last command, automatic spec formatters used by SuSE are not able to read lines after it): %gconf_schemas_prereq %install ... %find_gconf_schemas or %def_gconf_schemas subpackage1 %add_gconf_schemas schemas_name1 %add_gconf_schemas schemas_name2 %def_gconf_schemas subpackage2 %add_gconf_schemas schemas_name3 %add_gconf_schemas schemas_name4 %end_gconf_schemas schemas names are without path and suffix %pre -f %{name}.schemas_pre %preun -f %{name}.schemas_preun %posttrans -f %{name}.schemas_posttrans %files -f %{name}.schemas_list or %files -f subpackage.schemas_list You don't have to list schemas files in the file list, it is done automatically for you. In case of more -f needed for one %files: %install ... %find_gconf_schemas %find_lang %{name} cat %{name}.schemas_list %{name}.lang >%{name}.lst %files -f %{name}.lst -- Best Regards / S pozdravem, Stanislav Brabec software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: sbrabec@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 966 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
Op Thursday 22 March 2007 14:24:25 schreef Stanislav Brabec:
Hallo.
Because many people asks, I am trying to explain problems with gconf scriptlets in detail.
I stored it on the wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Build_Tutorial/GConf_scritplets -- Richard Bos We are borrowing the world of our children, It is not inherited from our parents. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
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