Re: How to put files at a location determined at install-time.

2002-01-02 Thread Chad C. Walstrom
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:09:41PM +0100, Marc L. de Bruin wrote: On my system, I have hde1 (mounted as /), and md0 (hde2+hdg1, mounted as /raid1). The home-dirs are on /raid1/home and I have a symlink /home - /raid1/home (this probably is a bad thing, I know). No, this isn't necessarily bad.

Re: How to put files at a location determined at install-time.

2002-01-01 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:09:41PM +0100, Marc L. de Bruin wrote: Therefore it is up to the root-user (and his filesystem) where the files should end up after installation. Is this possible? Thanks again, if this is the case, then i would strongly recomend distributing it as a tarball,

Re: How to put files at a location determined at install-time.

2002-01-01 Thread Goswin Brederlow
John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:09:41PM +0100, Marc L. de Bruin wrote: Therefore it is up to the root-user (and his filesystem) where the files should end up after installation. Is this possible? Thanks again, if this is the case, then i

Re: How to put files at a location determined at install-time.

2002-01-01 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:09:41PM +0100, Marc L. de Bruin wrote: So, the root-user might want the files to be physically installed on /raid1, e.g. /raid1/mydata, so that a user blah (/raid1/home/blah) can make a hardlink from /raid1/home/blah/afile to /raid1/mydata/afile. if the local

Re: How to put files at a location determined at install-time.

2001-12-31 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 02:23:55 +0100 Marc == Marc L de Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Marc So, to be more precise: debconf asks the user for that location, and Marc puts it in the debconf-database at myapp/thelocation. Now, when Marc installing mydata.deb, it should read the

Re: How to put files at a location determined at install-time.

2001-12-31 Thread Marc L. de Bruin
David Z Maze wrote: Marc L de Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MLdB What I am trying to build are a couple of packages (let's call one of MLdB these mydata.deb) containing just ordinary files, related to a MLdB specific application. All these packages Depend on a generic MLdB configuration package.

How to put files at a location determined at install-time.

2001-12-30 Thread Marc L. de Bruin
Lo all, Actually, I'm new here; this is my first post. I used to be a Debian-user only, but lately, I started to do some package development. With that, I ran in trouble. I lurked a bit on this mailing list and searched at http://lists.debian.org/search.html; also, I tried to find some guru's

Re: How to put files at a location determined at install-time.

2001-12-30 Thread David Z Maze
Marc L de Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MLdB What I am trying to build are a couple of packages (let's call one of MLdB these mydata.deb) containing just ordinary files, related to a MLdB specific application. All these packages Depend on a generic MLdB configuration package. This configuration

Re: How to put files at a location determined at install-time.

2001-12-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 11:03:15PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: For something that multiple users could potentially want to use, really the best thing to do is provide a tarball in the package, and let the end-user be responsible for unpacking it where they feel is appropriate; this is the