[gobolinux-devel] Actions on install

[Hisham Muhammad]

On 11/22/06, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:06:35 +0100, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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, I've looked at it now, but it made me wonder; is it really good to be
> runned after SymlinkProgram? Isn't it better that it was runned before, so
> that new files were symlinked?

The PostInstall script may need to run programs the newly-installed
package, therefore it needs to be linked. Perhaps SymlinkProgram
should run twice when there is a PostInstall file.

-- Hisham