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From: Bernhard Guillon <Bernhard.Guillon@opensimpad.org>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: X/Qt2 opie integration (patches included)
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:51:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E758CB.7040209@opensimpad.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gc72hu$i8f$1@ger.gmane.org>

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



  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-04 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-03 18:19 X/Qt2 opie integration (patches included) Bernhard Guillon
2008-10-04  6:30 ` Koen Kooi
2008-10-04 11:51   ` Bernhard Guillon [this message]
2008-10-07 11:20     ` Bernhard Guillon
2008-10-07 11:47       ` Koen Kooi
2008-10-07 12:33         ` Bernhard Guillon
2008-10-07 12:43           ` Koen Kooi
2008-11-21 17:32             ` Bernhard Guillon
2008-11-23 10:06               ` Bernhard Guillon
2008-10-07 12:43           ` Graeme Gregory

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