Re: RFS: auctiongallery -- Generates picture galleries and HTML templates for auction descriptions
The current version (0.9.2) does not yet allow users to have their own
config. All config is stored in /etc/auctiongallery and all templates go
to /usr/share/auctiongallery/templates. All auction pictures and
descriptions go to /home/auctiongallery.
I can make a new version and add features that allow users to have their
own settings, like ~/auctiongallery/auctiongallery.conf,
~/auctiongallery/templates and ~/auctiongallery/auctions. However that
kind of defeats the purpose of my software because it is aimed at eBay
powersellers who have many employees. The way I have auctiongallery set
up at my work is the following. All auction descriptions and pictures go
to a common directory /home/auctiongallery. All users have the same
config and the same templates unless they run auctiongallery with -c and
-t overrides. That way all employees are part of one team and everything
works nicely.
Sven Mueller wrote:
>Stan Vasilyev wrote on 18/08/2005 08:40:
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>>I searched lots of scripting FAQs but didn't find a way to find the
>>location of home dir.
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>Whose homedir? Many systems have more than one user.
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>>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?
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>What exactly are you trying to achieve by listing /home in debian/dirs?
>What are you trying to do in the postinst-Script?
>Fact is that auctiongallery is a tool which should be usable by any user
>on the system, each with his/her own configuration. Does auctiongallery
>allow this?
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>regards,
>Sven
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>PS: Please try to follow the common quoting style: Quote only what you
>directly refer to, only as much as needed and quote each part you are
>replying to directly above your respective answer/comment. That makes
>reading your postings a lot easier.
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