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darkcoder

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From: A bar near you

Registered: 2004-09-10

Posts: 310

[SOLVED] question about PKGBUILD syntax

I want to know if there's a way to specify actions when uninstalling a package.

What I want is to allow a daemon package to add an user (this part done) but be able to remove that user when the package is no longer needed.

skeeterbug

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From: Oklahoma, USA

Registered: 2004-10-24

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Re: [SOLVED] question about PKGBUILD syntax

I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure you'll need to use either the pre_remove or post_remove part of the install - depending on your requirements.  If you look at /var/abs/install.proto you can see the different sections.  pacman runs these commands as root (pretty sure) so you should be able to add some kind of userdel/groupdel as needed.
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darkcoder

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From: A bar near you

Registered: 2004-09-10

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Re: [SOLVED] question about PKGBUILD syntax

thanks for the clue, now got it working