Hey Craig, thanks for the help,
Basically I'm copying over a text file that has a list of web links in, after the program is installed the file needs to be edited by the end user, so I'm trying to put the file in a place where a regular user would have permission to both read and write to the text file. Some people have suggested putting it in home/<user>/.<packageName> but I can't seem to be able to do that, been trying to use ~/ and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME but I just end up with everything being installed in folders called "~" or "DG_CONFIG_HOME" I need a way of finding the correct user path, I've been reading the info on this page: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html But I can't get my head round that either?? Here's the part of my make file where I specify the destination paths: # Icon and script go here DEST1 = $(CURDIR)/debian/gtk-link-lizard/usr/share/gtk-link-lizard-1.4 # Desktop launcher goes here DEST2 = $(CURDIR)/debian/gtk-link-lizard/usr/share/applications # Links.txt goes here DEST3 = $(CURDIR)/debian/gtk-link-lizard/"SOMEHOW I NEED THE HOME/<USER> PATH HERE??"/.gtk-link-lizard Thanks again. Jim. On 13 February 2011 21:38, Craig Small <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 06:24:06PM +0000, james frize wrote: >> I'm looking at installing the links.txt file to >> ~/.<packagename>/links.txt, but I don't seem to be able to use the >> ~wildcard. > Is this in rules file? If so you cannot do that at all. It doesn't > make any sense for a package to install a file in the users home > directory. > > Generally there is a /etc/<package>/whatever file for defaults and any > user specific files would be in /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples > The file in examples should really tell people what to do, e.g.: > > # This is an example file for whatever, you can copy this to > # ~/.whatever/myfile > > There are many problems with getting a package installer to install > files in a user's home directory. Perhaps the first one I can think of > is, "which user's directory?" > > - Craig > -- > Craig Small VK2XLZ http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au > Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org > GPG fingerprint: 1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTikBeVcyM4H [email protected]
