> options require internet access Yes, there should/needs to be access for a 'clean-room' machine, one which can/does not have continuous internet access. A zip file or a like snapshot would satisfy this need.
greg ~krsnadas.org -- from Sherlock, Ric <[email protected]> reply-to Beta forum <[email protected]> to Beta forum <[email protected]> date 9 November 2010 14:20 subject [Jbeta] pacman permissions The GUI interfaces for pacman in J602, J701 jhs and J701 gtk all currently check to see if you have "Administrator" writes to the ~addons folder before letting you run pacman. I think this is a mistake. The user should be able to open pacman and browse the available addons and see what is installed/not installed without requiring write access. IMO rather than "fail" if 'update' fails due to checkaccess, the attempt to start pacman should succeed, but perhaps there should be a message explaining that the "local catalog was last updated x days ago". >From the following page http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/JAL/Package%20Manager/jpkg The following options require write access to the ~addons directory: 'remove' The following options require internet access as well as write access to the ~addons directory: 'install' , 'reinstall' , 'update' , 'upgrade' All other options only require read access to the ~addons directory. (history, manifest, show, search, showinstalled, shownotinstalled, showupgrade, status ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
