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On 2011-12-07 09:57, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
disk where unproviliged users are not allowed to write to. that's by design.
.. unprivileged ...
anyhow, in my personal experience not many packages will actually execute any scripts in the pre-/postinstall process; e.g. of the 3600 packages installed on my system, only 1800 come with a postinst script. of those, at least 900 are virtually the same and only call "ldconfig" (after installing a library).
what i mean is, that most pre-/postinstall scripts deal with either easing the upgrade of a package (e.g. configuration files need to be migrated) or making the system aware of updates within the package (e.g. tell the linker cache that new libraries are there; install system wide menu entries).
the former is no problem if you don't _upgrade_ your package. the latter could be helped by rebooting the machine.
fgmasdr IOhannes