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[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

+ Frank Griffin + ftg at roadrunner.com +
+ Wed Oct 13 23:34:40 CEST 2010 +

+
+ +
Michael Scherer wrote:
+>
+> touching /home is forbidden in %pre and %post per policy.
+>
+> 1) you cannot be sure that every user are available ( ie, using
+> ldap/nis )
+>
+> 2) you cannot be sure that someone is not already using the
+> directory/config file ( ie, shared home by nfs, or multiuser system )
+>
+> 3) you cannot be sure that the home is mounted ( auto mounter based on
+> login, etc )
+>   
+
+Excellent point; I hadn't thought of that. 
+
+One way of doing it might be, having identified packages that require
+this sort of support, to wrap the executables with scripts that do this
+the next time a user runs the software before the real executable is
+launched.
+
+ + + +
+

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