Michel Salim wrote: > On 20/08/07, Stanislav Brabec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michel Salim wrote: > > > I'm currently working on packaging a GNOME application that installs > > > OMF files, and thus requires scrollkeeper to be run on post-install / > > > post-uninstall. > > > > > > I am getting segfaults, however, which turns out to be because > > > /var/lib/scrollkeeper was not present! i.e. the scrollkeeper database > > > was never initialized. > > > > > > This is probably a bug with scrollkeeper (shouldn't it initialize its > > > database post-install, and own /var/lib/scrollkeeper?), but should I > > > handle this differently, i.e. run a test before running > > > scrollkeeper-update? > > > > AFAIK, in new SuSE versions scrollkeeper is only a build time dependence > > and you don't need to call anything in %post/%postun. In old SuSE > > versions SuSEconfig was updating the database if a flag file in /var/lib > > was created in %post/%postun. > > > > The segfault you experience is most probably: > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=258576 > > It is -- I used exactly the same workaround. Any reason why > scrollkeeper is not patched to just own and create > /var/lib/scrollkeeper?
Not creating /var/lib/scrollkeeper was a bug, which is now fixed. Why to add new user account and another dangerous sgid application? These data were updated by root after the (un)installation and should never be changed by users. > > > > You should not call scrollkeeper in %install phase. But it is not so > > easy as it should be: > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237140 > > It was in %postinstall. Should I take it off from there too? Yes. In new SuSE versions, it is not used any more. > If > --disable-scrollkeeper is passed to %configure, actually, I might not > even need a BR on it. I guess that --disable-scrollkeeper should disable only indexing in /var/lib, but I am not sure. See gnome-doc-utils for more. > Doesn't yelp require scrollkeeper, though? How do us poor GNOME users > get our documentation indexed? :) I guess that no. I don't understand this stuff, but I guess, that yelp uses index created by scrollkeeper-preinstall during compilation. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-devel-list/2006-July/msg00014.html -- Best Regards / S pozdravem, Stanislav Brabec software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
