Linux dpkg Software Report

[Tim Frost]

Christian,


On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 11:34 +0100, Christian Schult wrote:
> Hello Tim,
> 
> Tim Frost wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 21:25 -0800, Ray Parrish wrote:
> 
> > > I hope I won't get flamed for this, but I have just completed my most 
> > > ambitious script to date, and have completed the Linux dpkg Software 
> > > Report script which takes output from dpkg, and formats it into html 
> > > pages sorted by package section, such as Games, Editors, etc... and also 
> > > generates an alphabetical index to the packages.
> 
> > This allows an admin to install the scripts in a system directory such
> > as /usr/bin, without needing to compromise system security.
> 
> Sorry for beeing a bit nitpicking, of course one can install files where
> one wants to. According to FHS [1] it's recommended to put executables
> not installed by the systems package management into /usr/local/bin.

Agreed.  /usr/local/bin would be more appropriate for Ray's scripts, if
they are to go into a "system" directory rather than a user directory
such as $HOME/bin (assuming that $HOME/bin is in $PATH).

*MY* point was that his script, as coded, depends on being invoked with
an absolute path name so that it can locate the support files.


> This ensures that locally installed files do not overwrite files
> installed by package management or aren't overwritten by them in future.
> Also backup is easy because you only have to backup /usr/local.
> 
> Christian
> 
> 1 http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
> 

Tim


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Tim Frost <timfrost at xtra.co.nz>
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