Re: [SOLVED] [gentoo-user] Automatically copy a file to a different location after package install/update

[J. Roeleveld]

On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 10:01:10 AM Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2016 10:53:03 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > Currently, I have to manually remember to copy the schema across when I
> > update the ftp-server. Is there a way to set up a little script that
> > will automatically copy the schema file to a different location after a
> > successful install/update without having to patch the ebuild-files.
> > (manually copying is less error-prone)
>
> You can define hooks in /etc/portage/bashrc and /etc/portage/env that are
> run at various stages of the ebuild. A post_install hook in
> /etc/portage/env/cat/ftp-server should do what you want.
>
> https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/portage.html#config-bashrc-ebuil
> d-phase-hooks

Thank you for the reply. It gave me the keywords to search for.

If anyone else ever needs to write something similar, here is how I got it to 
work:

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# cat /etc/portage/bashrc 

#!/bin/bash

if [ "${EBUILD_PHASE}" = "postinst" ]
then
  if [ "${CATEGORY}/${PN}" = "net-ftp/pure-ftpd" ]
  then
    cp /etc/openldap/schema/pureftpd.schema 
/opt/packages/SHARED/etc/openldap/schema/pureftpd.schema
    echo "NOTE: LDAP Schema File copied."
  fi
fi

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This should be easy to adjust to needs.

Using /etc/portage/env doesn't work.

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Joost