[Slackbuilds-users] Slackbuilds: doinst.sh and douninst.sh

[Willy Sudiarto Raharjo]

> I noticed that sometime a slackbuild requires to create user and group. 
> In my case, postgresql.SlackBuild requires user and group creation 
> before builing the software. Why don't put the user creation inside 
> doinst.sh? The user/group creation seems not needed for building 
> purpose. I'm missing something?

if you notice on postgresql.SlackBuild, we have this commands:

mkdir -p $PKG/var/lib/pgsql/$PG_VERSION/data
chown -R postgres:postgres $PKG/var/lib/pgsql

without having postgres user and group, this would fail and the 
files/directories will not have correct permission for the application


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Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
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