You might have remarked by looking at the output of
the --install command that some commands are run after the
installation, like ldconfig for example. In fact, it is very easy to add
scripts to be automatically executed before or after a package's installation.
The preinstall script should be
in ${CONFIGDIR}/preinst, by default
/usr/local/etc/urpkg/preinst. The default script that
comes with the urpkg tarball does not run any command. It is up to you to
change it if you want certain command to be run before any package is
installed. Pay attention though, because this script will be invoked with the
same privileges you had when you invoked urpkg. They
will not be run as the package user. If you want to
exclude the preinstall script from being run, you have to use the
--no-preinst option.
Every postinstall script should be put in
${CONFIGDIR}/postinst/, by
default /usr/local/etc/urpkg/postinst/. Every script
here is run after the installation. The scripts are run in an
undefined order. By default, ldconfig and a
script installing the program's source are run.
The source script is run only if it is passed the source files as an
argument. To pass an argument to a postinstall script,
use --SCRIPT-arg. For example, if the sources of foo are in
a foo.tar.gz file, you would do
$ sudo urpkg --install --source-arg=foo.tar.gz make install
The sources are installed in the package directory,
in src/. For a package named foo-1.1 that would be
${PKGDIR}/foo-1.1/src
You can use the --no-postinst option to not
run any postinstall script
or --exclude-script to exclude a particular one.