From: Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: Create dir with 700 permissions from recipe
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:40:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090820034018.GC32010@denix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8d7a1face05be6d40b10e2449a443196.marcin@juszkiewicz.com.pl>
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 02:19:12PM +0200, marcin@juszkiewicz.com.pl wrote:
> Dnia Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:58:25 +0200 napisales[as]:
>
> > > 1) never ever install something into $HOME
>
> > 1) Is there possibly something written why not to do that?
>
> Not every device has $HOME on same partition as / (for example most of
> Zaurus devices). And as those files ends in package what will happen if user
> will change file in $HOME and then package will overwrite it with other
> contents? What with users other then root?
>
> I know that in your situation most of those reasons are nothing to worry
> about but this is why we do not touch anything in $HOME.
This warning is only applicable to OE developers or distro maintainers.
Doesn't really apply to anyone doing own custom images...
--
Denys
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-20 3:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-18 13:52 Create dir with 700 permissions from recipe s hakkesteegt
2009-08-18 14:12 ` Graeme Gregory
2009-08-18 14:40 ` Phil Blundell
2009-08-19 8:55 ` s hakkesteegt
2009-08-19 12:00 ` Michael Smith
2009-08-18 14:17 ` Koen Kooi
2009-08-19 6:58 ` s hakkesteegt
2009-08-19 12:19 ` marcin
2009-08-20 3:40 ` Denys Dmytriyenko [this message]
2009-08-18 14:33 ` Michael Smith
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