Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (127 mails)

[Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/02/2009 01:22 PM, houghi wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:42:09AM +0100, Adrian Schröter wrote:
>   
> > Am Montag, 2. November 2009 08:27:09 schrieb Dave Plater:
> >     
> > > Hi, I need to create a directory in the users homes on rpm installation,
> > > can anybody point me in the right direction?
> > >       
> > This is horrible evil and can't work in all cases (for example if root has 
> > no 
> > write access to the home directory of the user, like with remote homes on 
> > NFS 
> > and friends).
> >     
> Or if you add users after the installation
>  
>   
> > We have mechanisms to create directories on desktop start, but it is usually 
> > better when your application handles this itself.
> >     
> That would be the best option. What you could do is also add the directory
> to /etc/skel. This might be gaining time if a lot needs to be placed the
> first time in that directory. If you do that a new user will have the
> required directory in his ~/.
>
> However there must be a check in the program to see if the directory exists
> and if not, it must be made with the apropriate files. So the /etc/skel is
> additional to what you must do anyway and one can wonder if it is needed
> at all.
>
> houghi
>   
I used the script Marcus provided, as a wrapper and included the -p
switch to mkdir. It works well and solves the problem.
Thanks
Dave P
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