maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 197191] [patch] devel/dconf: hardcoded "/etc" causes ibus-dconf failure, leading to engine preferences not saved

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Bug 197191: [patch] devel/dconf: hardcoded "/etc"  causes ibus-dconf failure,
leading to engine preferences not saved
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197191



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Created attachment 152364
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patch port Makefile to substitute "/etc"

Basically devel/dconf does not read profiles from /usr/local/etc/dconf/profile

Here is the problem that lead to this:

I found that ibus engine preferences are not saved e.g. from a Chinese Bopomofo
selecting traditional mode would not be retained and engine would always return
to default when switching between English and Chinese.

The main settings panel (ibus-settings) is fine and not affected by this.

here is a small sample of truss output:

open("/etc/dconf/profile/ibus",O_RDONLY,0666)	 ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
open("/share/dconf/profile/ibus",O_RDONLY,0666)  ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
open("/usr/share/dconf/profile/ibus",O_RDONLY,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
open("/usr/local/share/dconf/profile/ibus",O_RDONLY,0666) ERR#2 'No such file
or directory'
getpid()					 = 35300 (0x89e4)
write(2,"\n(ibus-dconf:35300): dconf-WARNING **: unable to open named profile
(ibus): using the null configuration.\n",106) = 106 (0x6a)

The textproc/ibus port actually installs this file as:
/usr/local/etc/dconf/profile/ibus

The real cause is that the devel/dconf file: engine/dconf-engine-profile.c hard
codes "/etc" and the sed command in port Makefile looks only for /etc/
therefore add an additional s/// to change all "/etc" (with quotes for safety)

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