Re: recreation of defaults database question

On Mon, 23 May 2005 20:52:37 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 20:32 +0200, Lars G wrote:
> 
>> just tried
>> 
>> export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE="xml::/home/lars/tmp/gconf.xml.defaults_test"
>> SCHEMAS="*.schemas"
>> for S in $SCHEMAS; do
>>   gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /etc/gconf/schemas/$S >/dev/null
>> done
>> 
>> on my fedora box and it really works!
>> it generates the exact same db as in /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/
>> thats nice! :-)
> 
> 	Note: there can be exceptions ... e.g. recent gnome-panel also installs
> actual values (as opposed to schemas) in the database with commands
> like:
> 
>   $> gconftool-2 --direct --config-source=xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
>                  --load /etc/gconf/schemas/panel-default-setup.entries
>   $> gconftool-2 --direct --config-source=xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
>                  --load /etc/gconf/schemas/panel-default-setup.entries /apps/panel/default_setup
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark.

actually these two .entries files added the last missing 88 files and now
it is 100% :-)
guess one could also add the panel-default-setup-battstat.entries file
for notebooks with power management enabled.

1650 files in my original db and 1650 in my newly created one, yay! :-)


thanks!
lars