Re: Updating the PATH for /opt/<package>/bin

Bart Whiteley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.discuss
Organization Novell, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Could you explain the setup.sh idea?  Is this 
a file that is installed by the RPM, and the admin
runs it after the RPM is installed?  If so, how does
the admin run it if it is not in the PATH?  :)  Or, is it a 
file that the admin gets along side the RPM
(which perhaps invokes rpm -i to install the RPM)?

Why are you opposed to letting the package do this in 
post-install?

On Wednesday 25 June 2003 02:49 pm, George Kraft wrote:
> I would *not* put that in the package's post-install, but rather in a
> setup.sh script for the system admin to run.
>
> George (gk4)
>
> On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 11:48, Mark Hatle wrote:
> > I have never seen that behavior.  However, I have seen application
> > suggest to the user they should do that..
> >
> > --Mark
> >
> > Bart Whiteley wrote:
> > > Is it appropriate for an "add-on" application to update the
> > > system PATH to include /opt/<package>/bin?
> > >
> > > If so, what is the recommended way to accomplish this?
> >
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