[gobolinux-devel] Actions on install

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:10:14 +0100, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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.
>
if ${target} was available one could (should) use that instead to run the  
newly installed programs, unless the PostInstall script should be runable  
manually by the user.

-- 
/Jonas

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