uuid not getting generated until after install

Frederic Crozat fcrozat at mandriva.com
Tue May 13 07:52:30 PDT 2008


Le mardi 13 mai 2008 à 15:58 +0200, Thiago Macieira a écrit :
> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 15:16:42 Havoc Pennington wrote:

> > >  But, in this particular case, since we are talking about program
> > >  installation, I have to really question why it wants to connect to the
> > >  *session* bus. That seems just plain broken to me: why is specifically
> > >  the session in which the installation happening more important than all
> > >  of the other sessions?
> >
> > This is quite true. I think the code in gconftool is intended to deal
> > with "make install" on a developer workstation when the developer is
> > doing a source build, or something like that. It's quite a broken
> > hack, really.
> 
> I suggest it be fixed there in the first place. The new feature to D-Bus is 
> not anything critical, so gconf should not be depending on it to work 
> properly.

We are seeing a somehow similar issue with gstreamer-plugins gio at
build time : we are running make check for package generation (all that
in a nice chroot) and tests are failing because uuid file doesn't exist.

Any idea on how to fix this problem ?

-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at mandriva.com>
Mandriva



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