Sorry forgot to clarify, yeah it's in my rules makefile. On 13 February 2011 21:55, james frize <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >
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