Re: [Fwd: Re: Odd occurance when installing 764]
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 03:21:49PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: To Michael: Not sure who to direct this to, but should the post install scripts do some extra checks for this potential upgrade fluff? Not sure how many upgrades this could effect. What might we do with it if we found it? Michael ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Fwd: Re: Odd occurance when installing 764]
On 29 Sep 2008, at 02:06, Michael Stone wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 03:21:49PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: To Michael: Not sure who to direct this to, but should the post install scripts do some extra checks for this potential upgrade fluff? Not sure how many upgrades this could effect. What might we do with it if we found it? Michael :-) Well I can't think of a reasonable reason for leaving an old copy of Journal kicking around in /home/olpc/Activities (faint chance a dev is keeping old keep sakes). So that would be a rm, in my book. Unless you think there is a faint chance of the user booting back to some pre 6xx build and have it still work? The Clac issue I guess is a special case in that that there was a 'Calculate' from MIT that was replaced by Reinier's 'Calc' at some point (at least as I understand the history), so I'm guessing bundle_id didn't exist (or perhaps now depreciated service thingy) so there's no way the updater would officially know to replace/remove Calc and replace with Calculate. This could be a special case for post cleanup, removing Calc if Calculate has been installed. I guess it's a trade-off between fielding support questions, risk of deleting something the user actually wanted still, and complexity of the post install script (as it surly will grow over time). I don't claim to know enough to answer, just enough to ask the question :-) --Gary P.S. what's the post install script called by the way? I'm sure I've seen it mentioned in passing or rushing past the console after an install, doing 'rainbow' type stuff I think, hence me invoking your name here. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Fwd: Re: Odd occurance when installing 764]
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Sep 2008, at 02:06, Michael Stone wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 03:21:49PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: To Michael: Not sure who to direct this to, but should the post install scripts do some extra checks for this potential upgrade fluff? Not sure how many upgrades this could effect. What might we do with it if we found it? Well I can't think of a reasonable reason for leaving an old copy of Journal kicking around in /home/olpc/Activities (faint chance a dev is It's useful if you want to alt-boot back to an old build. The Clac issue I guess is a special case in that that there was a 'Calculate' from MIT that was replaced by Reinier's 'Calc' at some point (at least as I understand the history), so I'm guessing bundle_id didn't exist (or perhaps now depreciated service thingy) so there's no way the updater would officially know to replace/remove Calc and replace with Calculate. This could be a special case for post cleanup, removing Calc if Calculate has been installed. In 9.1, I hope that Michael will provide me with the security framework I need to handle 'upgrades' between bundles with different IDs (and authors!), so I can express that 'calculate' is really an updated 'calc' and have that managed properly. So the 'fluff' ought to be removed at that time. P.S. what's the post install script called by the way? I'm sure I've seen it mentioned in passing or rushing past the console after an install, doing 'rainbow' type stuff I think, hence me invoking your name here. olpc-configure, part of the olpc-utils package. It's really a first boot script, but you first boot immediately post install so it wears both hats. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Odd occurance when installing 764
After installing 764, in circle mode I had an icon for the calculator activity, but it would not run successfully. Switching to line mode I found the calculator had not been designated as a favorite. When I made it a favorite I had two calculator icons in circle mode of the home page. The second (new one) ran successfully. When I erased the first one I had one calculator icon that ran correctly. A similar experience occurred for me in 757 with a different Application. I don't know why I seem to have all the really strange experiences. Just lucky I guess:-) - -- === mathematician, n.: Some one who believes imaginary things appear right before your _i's. === Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Odd occurance when installing 764
On 27 Sep 2008, at 21:30, Aaron Konstam wrote: After installing 764, in circle mode I had an icon for the calculator activity, but it would not run successfully. Switching to line mode I found the calculator had not been designated as a favorite. When I made it a favorite I had two calculator icons in circle mode of the home page. The second (new one) ran successfully. When I erased the first one I had one calculator icon that ran correctly. A similar experience occurred for me in 757 with a different Application. I don't know why I seem to have all the really strange experiences. Just lucky I guess:-) I've not seen this myself after an upgrade, what did you upgrade from? Is it possible you had (some) activities installed in the 'system' place** rather than /home/olpc/Activities? I've seen 2 activity icons for what looks like the same application in that situation. ** /usr/share/sugar/activities/ is the current 'system' place (Journal should now be the only activity there I think). --Gary ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
