kconf_update: ensuring it has run

[Waldo Bastian]

Yes, It's a todo item to make it more verbose.

Your point 2) is interesting but I don't see how to do that in a backwards 
compatible way without running updates twice since existing apprc files don't 
have such a key.

I'm on vacation the coming week but feel free to remind me about this next 
week.

Cheers,
Waldo

On Friday 24 May 2002 01:26 pm, Marc Mutz wrote:
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> Hi!
>
> We already got a few reports for KMail that came from people who copied
> their KDE 2.x kmailrc over the newly created 3.0.0 version after
> upgrading and found that some things didn't work anymore.
>
> There was also a problem with kconf_update running scripts multiple
> times due to permission problems with kconf_updaterc.
>
> Can we possibly make kconf_update
> 1. be more verbose when it fails (testing scripts is
>    particularly difficult currently: I needed the best part of one hour
>    to find out that I mispelt Id= as ID= and missed the ,perl on the
>    Script= key's value :-( )
> 2. include information of which conversions have been run in the
>     processed config file, e.g. copy the kconf_updaterc:[app.upd] group
>     to apprc:[kconf_update, so the app can check on startup that all
>     conversions were applied.
>
> KMail uses the kconf_update mechanism quite heavilly and we rely on it
> for much more than shoving some keys between groups. E.g. I have patch
> on my HD that uses kconf_update to convert all identity references in
> kmailrc to use numeric IDs rather than the identity name (to fix the
> obvious problem on renaming identities), complete with creating
> numerical IDs for each identity found.
>
> If this script isn't run, all references to identities will be lost.
> What's worse, we plan to introduce the same concept for Kmail's folders.
>
> Marc
>
> - --
> Marc Mutz <mutz at kde.org>
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