On 2014-05-17 22:55, ushi wrote: > Am 17.05.2014 22:08, schrieb Bardur Arantsson: >> On 2014-05-17 21:50, Roland Tapken wrote: >>> Hi Bardur, >>> >>>> Maybe I've missed something reading through this thread, but *assuming* >>>> (yeah, I know) that packages can't run arbitrary scripts at install time >>>> (which I think is a valid assumption for pacman), >>> >>> Is this so? I don't know since I've only scratched the surface of arch until >>> now. But I'm not quite sure about this, since, for example, there must be a >>> way to add new users like http after installing apache. How should this be >>> done without a post-install-script? >> >> I always thought that "this package needs users X,Y and Z" was handled >> via some metadata in the package description, not via scripts per se. >> Maybe I'm wrong on that too. > > Such things are handled via install scripts[0], called by pacman when > (un)installing/upgrading packages... and yes, packagers can put > arbitrary code in there. (postfix exmaple[1]) > I see. Good to know. The premise for my whole hypothetical was thus dismissed and I hang my head in shame ;). Regards,
