Hi, On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Per the license, it is ok if takes conscious user effort to disable > the post-install script,
The only way to disable the post-install script file (besides removing the .INSTALL file that is created inside the package tarball) would be to pass the --noscriptlet option to the pacman package manager. The pacman man page says: "--noscriptlet If an install scriptlet exists, do not execute it. Do not use this unless you know what you are doing." > and the message is displayed prominently, > i.e. not hidden among long install logs in batch installs. (Perhaps > a 'read' would fix that, although annoying...) If today was Sep 25, the output when installing ion-3-20080825 would look as follows: bash-3.2# date 09251522 Thu Sep 25 15:22:00 BRT 2008 bash-3.2# pacman -U ion-3-20080825-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz loading package data... checking dependencies... (1/1) checking for file conflicts [#######################] 100% (1/1) upgrading ion-3 [#######################] 100% PLEASE NOTE: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This package is older than 28 days, so it may not be the latest version of Ion-3. The author does not support old and/or obsoleted versions. Please send any bug reports to the package maintainer, not the author. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ These install messages are considered to be very important in archlinux, and will never be hidden from the user by the package manager. > > Other than that, I'd obviously prefer more intelligent notifications [snip] > Obviously, such "call home" is somewhat annoying.. although much > less than the application itself doing it at times other than the > installation.. and it would be better if the information was > obtained from the same source as the package. Distributors could > keep a database of the information for all packages...) Problems could arrise if the user is currently not connected to the Internet when installing the package, too. Thanks a lot for your reviews and advise. Do you confirm the packages, if packaged as I described here, are freely redistributable according to the trademark license? Thanks and best regards, Paulo Matias
