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Re: [pryzbyj: maint scripts]



On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:54:01PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 12:40:50PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > And BTW, VIM doesn't care either; it can work out that it's perl without
> > the .pl extension.
> Mine doesn't work like that; am I missing an option?

Err. Mine seems to just do that. It won't do it with a brand new file,
only if you open an existing file. My .vimrc doesn't contain anything
special.

> > Finally, should your script be in /usr/sbin instead if it's only going to be
> > called by package maintainer scripts? (Perhaps even /usr/lib?).
> Nope, /usr/bin/ is intentional; iraf has its own user, which is meant to
> be used by the "IRAF administrator", in the case that its different from
> the general system administrator.  /usr/{lib,share}/iraf/ are
> iraf:nogroup.  The IRAF admin shouldn't have to specify /usr/sbin/.

OK.

> Can someone comment on how user 'iraf' relates to Policy?  I don't know
> if package's users are actually supposed to be used like that; for now
> its a debconf option.

I don't know, sorry.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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