gconf schema installation, $DESTDIR

[David Hampton]

On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 08:16 -0500, Josh Sled wrote:
> David, I'm a bit unclear on how this should work, but I'm hoping we can
> find a solution before 1.9.2.  With respect to the schema installation
> done in the Makefiles, it seems like we should make the gconftool-2
> calls conditional on GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL, and insteadd
> call them in the package-management's "post" hook. Or does gconftool-2
> check for the value of GCONF_DISABLE[...]?

Apparently gconftool-2 does check.  The install step when building an
rpm does:

   export GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL=1
   (fancy make install command here)
   unset GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL

This results in only the schema files being installed, without the
default key/value pairs also being created.

> Also, we should make the mkdir calls prefix'ed with DESTDIR, as in:
> 
>     -mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(GCONF_SCHEMA_CONFIG_SOURCE_DIRONLY)

Sounds reasonable.

> Also, what's the policy for uninstalling schema?  Is just removing the
> schema file enough?  I don't see any --makefile-uninstall-rule in
> gconftool-2.

You should remove both the schema and the default keys/value pairs
installed by the makefile-install-rule.  The makefile-uninstall-rule
does exist and does this.

David