Minor: the package creates all its files via PostInstScript including the directory in which they reside. That makes it difficult for sysadmins to determine what package owns those files because nothing about them is managed by dpkg. It appears that creating the files at that stage makes sense, but that the directory-name would be known at InstallScript (it's in %p and based on data published by another quite stable package). Having the directory in the .deb would at least make *that* level known to dpkg, giving a correct clue to the package that handes the files within. Easily fixable, will do so in a day or two unless someone complains.
Major 1: the PostInstScript hardcodes full paths to several executables in /usr/X11R6/bin, an x11 prefix that is not the real x11 prefix on any supported platform (and hasn't been for many years). It remains as a symlink (when the installer doesn't screw up) on currently supported platforms, but who knows what might happen in the future. Fink's init.sh is designed to add the correct x11 paths to PATH and is always loaded for all dpkg package scripts, so there's no need to hardcode at all. That avoids having to update or fork the package for different x11 vendors (of which 10.7 is different than 10.8+). Easily fixable, will do so in a day or two unless someone complains. Major 2: the PostInstScript, running as root, silently seems to alter files in all users' homedirs. That's not very nice! And it links them all into a public (in %p) location. Not good to expose user's private filenames to each other (even if the files themselves are protected by permissions). And it creates all those links in a single location, so multiple users' file-links would overwrite each other. That means it's broken for all users except the "last" one, since presumably those whose were overwritten would not have permission to the last-one's files. This all might make sense on a single-user machine, but not beyond that. This is all badly broken by design and I don't know a correct solution. Is there a way to have the users' data cached in each user's own space, or at least in subdirs? dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
