[gobolinux-devel] Re: Comments on Unmanaged and third party modules

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:55:02 +0200, Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon at kymatica.com>  
wrote:

> Jonas Karlsson wrote:
>> in short unmanaged files are installed into
>> /Programs/Foo/x.y/Resources/Unmanaged/[System/Kernel/Modules,/Programs/HTTPD/Current/modules,etc]
>> and are copied to their place in the filesystem at installation. The
>> process is protected by a list specified in
>> /Programs/Foo/x.y/Resources/UnmanagedFiles, which holds which files are
>> allowed to be copied. With unionsandbox this work like a charm with
>> everything written outside the sandbox moved into Unmanaged, but for
>> fibosandbox one have to configure the application to install the files
>> into the above mentioned path, which can cause programs try to use that
>> file during runtime.
>> If one knows where the files will be installed (outside of the sandbox)
>> one can create links that points to subdirectories in Unmanaged to
>> force  the files there, but that isn't a pretty solution.
>
> I see. Will the files be *copied* from Resources/Unmanaged? That means
> they will take up double size on the filesystem... How about:
>
> 1) packing them as Resources/Unmanaged.tar.bz2 instead?
> 2) using an old and mysterious dark voodo thing called hard links? =)
>
I like the idea with hard links.
What a wild and crazy idea!!! ;)

>> You have to have unionfs support in the kernel. If you have copmiled
>> unionfs as a module, don't forget to load it. :)
>>
>
> Allright, seems to work fine! The only thing is that I get this at the
> end: (But this has likely nothing to do with unionsandbox)
>
> ...
> SignProgram: Creating FileHash
> sudo: no passwd entry for root!
>
I've seen that, but haven't been able to track it down. To be honest I  
haven't spent that much energy on it either.

-- 
/Jonas

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