Review Request: When a source file for kconf_update does not exist, do not create it

Aurélien Gâteau agateau at kde.org
Mon Jun 7 10:41:06 BST 2010


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Ship it!


Looks good now. Any chance for a unit-test though? kconf-update unit-test code is a bit weird, let me know if you need some explanation there.

- Aurélien


On 2010-06-07 09:22:31, Kevin Krammer wrote:
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> Review request for kdelibs.
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> Summary
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> Currently, when kconf_update is being run by kdeinit4 on a new user account, it creates all config files that it has updates for, regardless whether these files exist.
> Which mean .kde/share/config gets populated with a lot of files with only kconf_update's entry in them.
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> Unfortunately that means that programs checking for a specific file's existance, e.g. PIM apps which are checking whether to run a migrator tool, will be fooled into assuming that there are actually valid settings.
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> The patch uses the already set m_skipFile flag to decide when not to sync the KConfig object, thus not creating the file if it didn't exist before
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> Diffs
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>   /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kconf_update/kconf_update.cpp 1135402 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4243/diff
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Kevin
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