[maemo-developers] [Fremantle] Creating gconf keys upon installation

[From: Faheem Pervez]

Talking of schemas, it would be nice if dh_gconf could be made not to
put the "rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty" line into the postrm of
a package using it, since the BusyBox shipped with the N900 doesn't
appear to support to support the "--ignore-fail-on-non-empty" option
which causes dpkg --purge <package having the the clause containing
"--ignore-fail-on-non-empty"> to fail.

I'm currently "hacking" around it by installing my schema file
manually, and inserting the usual lines generated by it manually into
the respective files, replacing "rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty"
with "rmdir -p || true"...

Best Regards,
Faheem

2010/1/12 Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com>:
> This is not a good way, since the Gconf database could be restored from
> an old backup (or a power failure could occur) and you would lose these
> values. The better way is to use a Gconf schema with default values,
> because that stays even if the values are unset.
>
> -Kimmo
>