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+DEPENDS += "gconf gconf-native"
+
+# These are for when gconftool is used natively and the prefix isn't necessarily
+# the sysroot.  TODO: replicate the postinst logic for -native packages going
+# into sysroot as they won't be running their own install-time schema
+# registration (disabled below) nor the postinst script (as they don't happen).
+export GCONF_SCHEMA_INSTALL_SOURCE = "xml:merged:${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}${sysconfdir}/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults"
+export GCONF_BACKEND_DIR = "${STAGING_LIBDIR_NATIVE}/GConf/2"
+
+# Disable install-time schema registration as we're a packaging system so this
+# happens in the postinst script, not at install time.  Set both the configure
+# script option and the traditional envionment variable just to make sure.
+EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-schemas-install"
+export GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL = "1"
+
+gconf_postinst() {
+if [ "x$D" != "x" ]; then
+	export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE="xml::$D${sysconfdir}/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults"
+else
+	export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source`
+fi
+
+SCHEMA_LOCATION=$D/etc/gconf/schemas
+for SCHEMA in ${SCHEMA_FILES}; do
+	if [ -e $SCHEMA_LOCATION/$SCHEMA ]; then
+		HOME=$D/root gconftool-2 \
+			--makefile-install-rule $SCHEMA_LOCATION/$SCHEMA > /dev/null
+	fi
+done
+}
+
+gconf_prerm() {
+SCHEMA_LOCATION=/etc/gconf/schemas
+for SCHEMA in ${SCHEMA_FILES}; do
+	if [ -e $SCHEMA_LOCATION/$SCHEMA ]; then
+		HOME=/root GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source` \
+			gconftool-2 \
+			--makefile-uninstall-rule $SCHEMA_LOCATION/$SCHEMA > /dev/null
+	fi
+done
+}
+
+python populate_packages_append () {
+    import re
+    packages = d.getVar('PACKAGES', True).split()
+    pkgdest =  d.getVar('PKGDEST', True)
+    
+    for pkg in packages:
+        schema_dir = '%s/%s/etc/gconf/schemas' % (pkgdest, pkg)
+        schemas = []
+        schema_re = re.compile(".*\.schemas$")
+        if os.path.exists(schema_dir):
+            for f in os.listdir(schema_dir):
+                if schema_re.match(f):
+                    schemas.append(f)
+        if schemas != []:
+            bb.note("adding gconf postinst and prerm scripts to %s" % pkg)
+            d.setVar('SCHEMA_FILES', " ".join(schemas))
+            postinst = d.getVar('pkg_postinst_%s' % pkg, True)
+            if not postinst:
+                postinst = '#!/bin/sh\n'
+            postinst += d.getVar('gconf_postinst', True)
+            d.setVar('pkg_postinst_%s' % pkg, postinst)
+            prerm = d.getVar('pkg_prerm_%s' % pkg, True)
+            if not prerm:
+                prerm = '#!/bin/sh\n'
+            prerm += d.getVar('gconf_prerm', True)
+            d.setVar('pkg_prerm_%s' % pkg, prerm)
+            d.appendVar("RDEPENDS_%s" % pkg, ' ' + d.getVar('MLPREFIX', False) + 'gconf')
+}