[aur-general] installing files for a specific user
Hi, I wonder whether it's possible to install files for a user automatically. Sometimes it would be appropriate to create user specific files instead of or in addition to the system wide files. I wonder whether this is possible and how. I guess it would at least require a post-install hook in the install file but that's as far as my guess goes. Thanks, Philipp
Hi, I wonder whether it's possible to install files for a user automatically. Sometimes it would be appropriate to create user specific files instead of or in addition to the system wide files. I wonder whether this is possible and how. I guess it would at least require a post-install hook in the install file but that's as far as my guess goes.
Thanks, Philipp The only way to do that is writing a globally installed script that copies or downloads required files into $HOME. That's because the whole packaging system is made with root permissions in mind. For user-space packages there are other systems, independent of pacman's.
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Excerpts from Hubert Grzeskowiak's message of 2010-04-23 02:35:18 +0200:
Hi, I wonder whether it's possible to install files for a user automatically. Sometimes it would be appropriate to create user specific files instead of or in addition to the system wide files. I wonder whether this is possible and how. I guess it would at least require a post-install hook in the install file but that's as far as my guess goes.
Thanks, Philipp The only way to do that is writing a globally installed script that copies or downloads required files into $HOME. That's because the whole packaging system is made with root permissions in mind. For user-space packages there are other systems, independent of pacman's.
That's what I feared. Guess I'll stick to post-install messages then. Thanks
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