Re: Packaging something with a PostgreSQL database.

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Matt Zimmerman 

| On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 04:01:40PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| 
| > * Gaetano Paolone 
| > | #DEBHELPER#
| > | ******************  end postinst  *******************
| > | 
| > | ******************  begin makedb.sh  *******************
| > | #!/bin/bash
| > | #set -e
| > | export SHAREDIR=/usr/share/odontolinux
| > | export TMPDIR=/var/tmp/odontolinux
| > | export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/postgresql/bin
| > | 
| > | mkdir -p $TMPDIR
| > 
| > mkdir -p $TMPDIR || exit 1, I presume?
| 
| Or, uncomment "set -e" and guard whichever commands (presumably few) should
| be allowed to fail.

Actually, neither your nor my suggestion will work.  mkdir -p doesn't
fail if the directory already exists, so you probably want something
like

mkdir $TMPDIR || exit 1

(or mkdir $TMPDIR with set -e active).

And it should respect TMPDIR if it is already set, and I see no reason
why it uses /var/tmp instead of /tmp.  :)

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.