Package: base-files Version: 3.1.9 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Adding the snippet below to /etc/profile modularizes /etc/profile so packages can drop snippets they want to add into an /etc/profile.d dir and have them picket up.
Several other packages in Debian have similar mechanisms in place the
advantage being that packages can add configuration snippets they need in a
policy compliant manner without needing to bother you guys for each change,
and without having the snippet when the package that needs it isn't
present.
I currently need this in order to fix a shortcoming of the current
desktop-profiles package (see beastie #344030 for details)
<<<<< begin snippet
# Allow packages to add stuff in a policy compliant manner
# approach is essentially copied form Debian's /etc/X11/Xsession file
SESSION_DIR=/etc/profile.d
run_parts () {
# until run-parts --noexec is implemented
for FILE in $(/bin/ls $1); do
if expr "$FILE" : '[[:alnum:]_-]\+$' > /dev/null 2>&1; then
if [ -f "$1/$FILE" ]; then
echo "$1/$FILE";
fi;
fi;
done;
}
# If $SESSION_DIR is a directory, source all scripts in it.
# We source instead of execute since we want scripts to be able to set
# variables, and define functions.
if [ -d "$SESSION_DIR" ]; then
SESSION_FILES=$(run_parts "$SESSION_DIR");
if [ -n "$SESSION_FILES" ]; then
for SESSION_FILE in $SESSION_FILES; do
. "$SESSION_FILE";
done;
fi;
fi;
>>>>> end snippet
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