[mythtv] Help needed for RPM Fusion package modernizaton

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 17:40:08 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
<gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ....
>> Hmm... I don't think this will be acceptable. I don't know of any
>> package that creates a full user account on install and I don't think
>> it would be welcomed. The current method is to assume a system wide
>> install (no automatic dependence on anything in /home) for the backend
>> running as the mythtv user and the frontend using whatever login the
>> end user wants.
>
> Then create an appropriate home entry in /var/lib (as other system
> daemons do).  Nothing in /etc or /usr should (need to be) writeable.
> That is LSB.

I like that idea better, but it could be a migration mess...
/var/lib/mythtv is already created by the package.

Richard


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