HEADS UP: New gconf key policy

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 23:00, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:20:25PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > Please take a look at the latest update to archivers/fileroller, and let
> > me know what you think.  This is the new gconf policy I think we need to
> > adopt if we're to survive the upcoming gconf changes in GNOME 2.8 (it's
> > similar to the way we handle OMF files now).  This will also make gconf
> > handling much more robust with respect to plists.
> > 
> > The one downside I see with this is that we will miss Makefile bugs that
> > prevent proper schema installation.  One way around that is to add a
> > pkg-install script to each port that installs gconf schemas, and do
> > gconf registration there.  This may be more work than it's worth,
> > though.
> > 
> > What are people's thoughts on this?  Thanks.
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> > -- 
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> 
> Well, there seems to be an increasing amount of post-install tasks in
> GNOME ports, so I think the idiom of using a pkg-install script for
> each port is a good one.

So far, there are only two (counting gconf) post-[de]install handlers
that are being added the plists.  I've written an omf.pl script (in my
CVS repo) to handle automatically adding OMF handlers.  I plan on doing
the same for gconf.  Given that, a pkg-install script might add more
repo bloat that we need at this time.

>   Turning to a design issue, do you see the
> changes to gconf handling as making debugging of gconf-related
> issues easier or harder.  I'm having a devil of a time wrestling an
> update of comms/gfax into working order because of gconf issues.

I don't think it will make gconf issues any harder to troubleshoot. 
Like I said, it will "mask" the problem we see occasionally when a
developer messes up one of the Makefiles, and schemas are not properly
installed.

What gconf problems are you having?

Joe

> 
> jmc
> 
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