HEllo,
can anyone tell me where does dpkg store its preinstall and postinstall
scripts when installing packages ?
I have /var mounted noexec, and want to link those directories to /usr.
/var is not place for scripts.
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Matus fantomas Uhlar, sysadmin at Telenor Internet Kosice, Slovakia
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On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
: HEllo,
:
: can anyone tell me where does dpkg store its preinstall and postinstall
: scripts when installing packages ?
/var/lib/dpkg/info iirc
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Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD
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Nathan E Norman writes:
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
can anyone tell me where does dpkg store its preinstall and
postinstall scripts when installing packages ?
/var/lib/dpkg/info iirc
That is correct. However dpkg is not necessarily the only program
which executes
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
That is correct. However dpkg is not necessarily the only program
which executes scripts from within /var.
It seems to me that what we have here is a classic case of trying to fix
something which isn't broken.
Simply mount /var in the normal way
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, William T Wilson wrote:
: On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
:
: That is correct. However dpkg is not necessarily the only program
: which executes scripts from within /var.
:
: It seems to me that what we have here is a classic case of trying to fix
:
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote:
Indeed. I didn't really understand the point (I DO mount /var/tmp,
/tmp, and /home noexec on some servers ...)
I find that noexec is only useful on NFS-mounted filesystems if you are
trying to prevent spoofing. There's really not a benefit in
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