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 ba

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 s

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 t

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.

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 pac

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.

2001-12-30 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

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 configura