Yes some (multiple?) packages which can sneakernetted through to a Faraday caged machine. That machine should be fully useful and fluent J-wise.
greg ~krsnadas.org -- from Sherlock, Ric <[email protected]> reply-to Beta forum <[email protected]> to Beta forum <[email protected]> date 9 November 2010 14:58 subject Re: [Jbeta] pacman permissions Just wanted to confirm that you mean more than just the ability to interact with pacman while offline? (which pacman already does) You mean you want to be able to copy a zip file (downloaded from JAL) to an offline machine that it can use to update its local catalog? -- From: greg heil Sent: Wednesday, 10 November 2010 11:48 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]> date 9 November 2010 14:20 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
