[gobolinux-devel] Actions on install

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:06:35 +0100, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On 11/15/06, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
>> While trying to get openssh to install on my server (I have too little
>> activity to generate any randomness for key generation) I realized that
>> the way we redistribute the OpenSSH package is not a good way. As the  
>> host
>> keys are included in Defaults/Settings anyone can pretend to be the
>> packagers server. But without the host keys one can't run sshd.  
>> Therefore
>> I think that some sort of action to generate these keys at installation  
>> or
>> just a note that this has to be done in order to use sshd should be
>> implemented. This can be used for other apps that need computer specific
>> settings and/or files.
>
> InstallPackage supports a script called Resources/PostInstall which
> runs in a sandbox with access to the program's contents and settings
> only. I believe the OpenSSH recipe should be fixed adding that script.
>
Ok, nice. I looked at the code and couldn't deduce if $target and  
$settings_target and such were available from the PostInstall script. I  
also noted that it only uses unionsandbox. How about those users that use  
fibo sandbox?

-- 
/Jonas

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