Package: debhelper
Version: 4.2.31
Severity: normal
Hi,
When installing or upgrading gnome packages, the postinst/prerm scripts
sometimes create gnome-related directories in /root: .gconf, .gconfd,
.gnome, .gnome2, .gnome2_private. These directories are all empty or
contain empty files.
Here is part of the code that debhelper writes into these scripts:
HOME=/root GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source` \
gconftool-2 \
--makefile-install-rule $SCHEMA_LOCATION/$SCHEMA > /dev/null
See also Bug#116898. I think, using 'HOME=/root' is bad for two reasons:
(a) According to FHS, the home directory of root may be a different one
than /root.
(b) More important, simply installing/upgrading packages should not
create files in any user's home, especially not in root's.
Perhaps it would be better to use something like HOME=`mktemp -d` and
to remove this temporary directory afterwards.
Regards,
Holger
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
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Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii binutils 2.15-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf-utils 1.4.30.11 debconf utilities
ii dpkg-dev 1.10.27 Package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.12-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management utilities
ii html2text 1.3.2a-1 An advanced HTML to text converter
ii perl 5.8.4-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii po-debconf 0.8.21 manage translated Debconf template
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