Installing to absolute path

[heartsucker]

Installing to absolute path

[heartsucker]

Hey @sanyatuning. Are you saying that you'd like to have some <project-root>/some/path/myconfigfile.json put into the Debian package so that at install time, it appears in /etc/myconfigfile.json?

[vidstige]

yes, exactly.

[vidstige]

For now I just changed the place were I refered to /etc/ to instead refer to /usr/share/tumel/app/

[heartsucker]

I think this isn't supported at the moment. I think it might be possible to put things into /etc/{app}/, but I also feel like this might be a job for configuration management. Can you explain your use case?

[vidstige]

I see, yeah this was more of a question. Use case is I have a client connecting to a server. The client is inside this deb package. I want to keep the config file where it says what server and port to connect to in a config file. Usually on linux these are found in /etc. However, it would probably be a bad idea to edit files managed by apt. Best would be if I could copy a file to /etc in postinst. Can this be done then?

[heartsucker]

@vidstige Btw, this would be a use case for the --extra-files flag while allows you to drop files where ever you want on the file system. If you had a folder like

my-dir
  |- /etc/
     |- wat.txt

And did

node-deb --extra-files my-dir -- index.js

then wat.txt would end up at /etc/wat.txt.

[vidstige]

I see, then it was already supported. Thanks for the explanation. 👍