Re: user's home directory
On Monday 28 April 2003 03:56, Pedro Salgueiro wrote:
> Hi.
> I'm making a deb package of a project that i'm working
> on, and I need to know if a deb package can copy
> something to a directory of a user's home. I have read
> somewhere that a debian package can not toucth on a
> user's home but I cant't fint anymore.
> I wold like you to help me with this.
>
packages are not supposed to touch /home. The rationale is pretty straight
forward.
Today you install package foo. It writes foo_rc to each dir in /home (or
perhaps it reads passwd). Tomorrow you add a user. He does not have foo_rc.
Also, /home may be on a network share and root may not have write permissions.
This is quite common in office and school environments.
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