[Netkit.users] NETKIT_HOME & debian package

[Massimo Rimondini]

Dear Alessandro,

your solution to set the NETKIT_HOME variable to a default value seems
reasonable. Alternatively, we could think of setting the variable inside
some system-wide configuration file like /etc/profile (in which case,
however, we would be assuming that the user has adopted bash as his
default shell) or /etc/login.defs.

Of course we are interested in packaged versions of Netkit. If you have
some package configuration file which you would like to share, feel free
to submit it :-)

Thank you very much and regards,
Massimo.


Alessandro Dentella wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I made debian packages for netkit.
>
>   Netkit looks for the environment variable NETKIT_HOME in any script, but
>   that's not very handy if you install in debian as it forces users to set
>   a variable that points in a well defined place. 
>
>   I thought to install in /usr/share/netkit so that it would be nicer to the
>   user if that's already the default location for NETKIT_HOME.
>
>   I could add a line in any script:
>
>      NETKIT_HOME=${NETKIT_HOME:-/usr/share/netkit}
>
>   or I could force to read /etc/netkit.conf where such a default could be
>   set
>
>   Any suggestion/feeling? 
>
>   Both the aforementioned solutions require a patch, are you interested in
>   it and in the debian config for the package(s)?
>
>   thanks
>   sandro
>   *:-)
>
>
>