On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:34:51 +0200, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:15:25 +0200, Hisham Muhammad > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 9/9/06, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Added installation of unmanaged files to SymlinkProgram >> >> Installation of unmanaged files is/should not be made at >> SymlinkProgram, but at InstallPackage and Compile. You don't want >> unmanaged files to be re-copied every time you switch versions using >> SymlinkProgram, for example. >> > As one, at least I, wants to remove the files when one uses > RemoveProgram, and presumably with DisablePrograms as well, there should > be a way to get the files back into place without having to > Compile/unpack the entire application. I could add a check to see if the > file exists, or just remove the '-f', but then again there could be > version specific unmanaged files, like the kernel module for rlocate, > and therefore it needs to be copied everytime one switches version with > SymlinkProgram. > >>> Made installation of unmanaged files use hard links and fall back to >>> copy >> >> Hard links are a bad idea for installation of unmanaged files, because >> when you edit a file in the unmanaged location, it will modify the >> files under Resources/ (this will "taint" the program, will break >> signature verification and make it easy to get site-specific stuff >> stored by accident in packages). >> > Fair enough, but perhaps you should have mentioned this in the thread > "Suggestions to Compile"? > Otoh, most unmanaged files are static (aren't all), so this shouldn't be > an issue(?). > Just realized that I contradicted myself in my other message, as /etc/passwd are far from static... Otoh (again) these few files in /etc (passwd, group, fstab etc) are system critcal and should never be part of a package/recipe and are therefore disqualified from unmanged. There may however be other files that qualify that aren't static, but I fail to see any such file. Probably all dynamic files can be fit into the "managed" directories under /Programs instead of be placed in unmanaged by lazyness. -- /Jonas Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
