Re: installed jar files are read-only; how to over-write? (error 215)

[Elizabeth Noemie Bartmess-LeVasseur]

Elizabeth Noemie Bartmess-LeVasseur wrote:

> I'm installing a package with the script below.  The problem that I'm 
> encountering is that it installs the jar file as read-only, and if I try 
> to later install an updated version with the same jar filename, it 
> doesn't install because it can't overwrite the original read-only 
> install.  Is there a way to make it install it as not read-only?


For anyone needing the answer:

XPInstall preserves the permissions that are on the file to begin with. 
  However, XPInstall was not correctly reading the permissions that were 
set by the archiver I was using (the jar utility that ships with version 
1.2.2 of the Blackdown jdk on Linux).  It worked fine when I used the 
zip utility instead.

Elizabeth