Re: RFS: auctiongallery -- Generates picture galleries and HTML templates for auction descriptions
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:40:34PM -0700, Stan Vasilyev wrote:
> I searched lots of scripting FAQs but didn't find a way to find the
> location of home dir. The problem is that when the postinst script runs,
> it runs as root and $HOME variable contains /root not /home. Should I
> just abandon that idea and post in documentation that my software needs
> manual configuration after install? Is it against Debian rules to ask
> the user to enter a directory path in the postinst script?
FHS says that /home/ is for users, no? If this is something a user
should be able to run (as I understand it is), then it should be
configurable without root rights, and the postinst is root-only.
Justin
> Bruno Barrera C. wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 15:31 -0700, Stan Vasilyev wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Thank you for review. When you said "You ship some dirs into
> >>debian/dirs. Do you really think that all of
> >>them are necessary?" did you mean the it's unnecessary to create
> >>/home/auctiongallery directory? Because if I don't create the directory
> >>for the storage of pictures and descriptions it defeats the purpose of
> >>having multi-user features.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Stan
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I mean that you need to be careful with this and do some research, since
> >not all systems are using /home as partition for its users.
> >
> >Try to look in other packages who creates users to know how they handle
> >this issue.
> >
> >
>
>
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