Re: Location for user installed plugin libraries and icons

2021-05-07 Thread Kris Deugau
Jon Gough wrote: The user install plugins can vary between very simple with a config file and a couple of icons up to complex with large data >1GB and hundreds of icons. So, if debs must not touch files in $HOME but is allowed to create files there (is that not a contradiction?) where else co

Re: installing an end user editable file

2011-02-14 Thread Kris Deugau
james frize wrote: However, I can't open a file from /usr/share via my python script as I don't have permission to open files in a protected directory print "loading links.txt from usr/share/doc/gtk-link-lizard..." try: self.text_file = open("usr/shar

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-30 Thread Kris Deugau
Ignacio Valdes wrote: Required to produce versions for both rpm and deb. No introspection means not easy to convert this from rpm to deb which is where this started. This would make it much easier to produce both deb and rpm versions if it has the ability to introspect those variables. If all

Re: building rpms on debian system?

2006-04-25 Thread Kris Deugau
The Fungi wrote: I'm not sure I've seen what seems to me to be the obvious solution come through in a reply yet, but why not just create a custom chroot for your target distribution (be it RHEL 4 or SUSE 9 or whatever) and build in there? Apparently this works pretty well for most people. If s

Re: building rpms on debian system?

2006-04-21 Thread Kris Deugau
[This is probably the wrong list for this.] Ek Zindagoi wrote: I would like to build rpms on a debian system for use on a redhat system. Can I do that on a debian system ? In short, no; system libraries on a RedHat system likely have different versions (and soversions), as well as a few dif