Am Freitag, 22. August 2003 00:16 schrieb Buchan Milne: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > I want to add a user vdr in postinstall of vdr-package. Now I'm a > > bit stuck. > > > > - do we have a group video per default (don't want to reinstall > > beta 1 to check this ? > > I don't think so.
Ok > > > - which home shoud the user get (vdr should running as user vdr) > > Somewhere not usually mounted NFS, ie not on /home or /usr, which > basically leaves /var. If you have some directory on /var, use that > (as openldap, squid, amanda, etc do). Ah ok. Thanks. > > - can I add vdr to group video at the same time ? > > Yes. Something like: > %pre > %_pre_useradd vdr /var/lib/vdr > %_pre_groupadd video vdr Thanks a lot. > It seems there is no point in removing them in %postun, since the > scripts don't do anything (at least on 9.1). > > > Hope the questions aren't to dumb. I'm a bit tired and may not see > > things right before my eyes ;) > > rpm --eval %_pre_groupadd > should show some interesting things. I know I should have taken some sleep before asking here. Yep it shows all I need. > > BTW: Wouldn't it be good to have a rpm-macro reference ore the like > > ? Could something like this be generated from existing macros ? > > Yes, should go in RPM-HOWTO on the Wiki, and we need to get docs from > a Wiki into installable format (ie into scrollkeeper or similar) for > offline reference. Looking forward to see something like this :) Steffen
