I think the key is that a System install handles the default case - i.e. the permissions of folders under "program files" are inherited. There have been no reported problems in J602 that I'm aware of and nothing has changed from that POV in J701.
> From: bill lam > Sent: Wednesday, 10 November 2010 12:46 > > Theoretically each subfolder or file under ~addons may have its own > permission setting, how I guess it will be sufficient in most cases to > check the folder ~addons/config and the files inside it. Another case > is base library which is under ~system folder. > > Anyway if ~addons is inside 'program files' of vista/win7, I guess it > will invite troubles. > > Срд, 10 Ноя 2010, Sherlock Ric писал(а): > > 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 > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
