Post-install or untar installation of 00xfree.csh, 00xfree.sh?

Jehan nahor@bravobrava.com
Mon Jul 29 15:51:00 GMT 2002


Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Is there a general policy of how /etc/profile.d/ scripts should be 
> installed?  Should they be indiscriminately untarred overtop of any 
> pre-existing version of the scripts in /etc/profile.d/, or should they 
> be installed via a post-install script?
> 
> If post-install scripts are the preferred method, would someone 
> (probably Jehan) care to make a post-install script for XFree86-bin that 
> is based off the post-install script for another package that installs 
> profile.d scripts?

For now, I have on my system two packages using profile.d scripts 
(openssl and tcsh). Both of them just have the scripts in the list of 
files to install (using "tar tvfj package.tar.bz2"). So I don't think 
they use any post-install script.

	Jehan





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