From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [85.13.140.93] (helo=dd20204.kasserver.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KnAgN-00084t-2k for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:24:51 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.103] (91-65-152-238-dynip.superkabel.de [91.65.152.238]) by dd20204.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E1B4180445F4 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:20:20 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48EB45F0.8080809@opensimpad.org> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:20:16 +0200 From: Bernhard Guillon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080925) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <48E6624C.7000409@opensimpad.org> <48E758CB.7040209@opensimpad.org> In-Reply-To: <48E758CB.7040209@opensimpad.org> Subject: Re: X/Qt2 opie integration (patches included) X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:24:51 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Any obstacles left? Else I would like to ask if some of you can please commit it [2] [3] to .dev branch. best regards Bernhard Guillon 1 http://linuxtogo.org/gowiki/Angstrom/XQt/playground 2 http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4582 3 http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4603 Bernhard Guillon schrieb: > Koen Kooi schrieb: >> >> NACK! >> >> +do_install() { >> [..] >> + install -d ${D}/home/root >> + install -m 0600 .blackboxrc ${D}/home/root >> >> A package NEVER EVER touches $HOME. NEVER! I wish ascii could >> produces some bigger capitals that blink and have baseballbats to get >> the point across, but sadly it can't. >> >> Imagine I don't log in as root and fire up packagekit to install that >> packages. I don't get the .blackboxrc, but the root user suddenly has >> his .blackboxrc overwritten without notice. >> >> So: >> >> A package NEVER EVER touches $HOME. NEVER! >> >> ${sysconfdir} exists for a reason. >> > Ok, I added a second version of the patch to the bugtracker which > implements your suggestion. > > I did use ${HOME} in the first version because it is the standard > location for blackbox configuration [1]. > > Is there any way for a clean implementation to put the config to the > standard location? With e.g postinstall? I don't like the idea of not > using a standard location but I agree that hardcode to /home/root can > cause trouble. > > > best regards > Bernhard Guillon > > 1 > http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/BlackboxDocumentation/BlackboxConfiguration#location > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel