[gobolinux-devel] tools/Scripts bin/RemoveProgram bin/DisableProg...

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:15:25 +0200, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On 9/9/06, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
>> 	Added installation of unmanaged files to SymlinkProgram
>
> Installation of unmanaged files is/should not be made at
> SymlinkProgram, but at InstallPackage and Compile. You don't want
> unmanaged files to be re-copied every time you switch versions using
> SymlinkProgram, for example.
>
As one, at least I, wants to remove the files when one uses RemoveProgram,  
and presumably with DisablePrograms as well, there should be a way to get  
the files back into place without having to Compile/unpack the entire  
application. I could add a check to see if the file exists, or just remove  
the '-f', but then again there could be version specific unmanaged files,  
like the kernel module for rlocate, and therefore it needs to be copied  
everytime one switches version with SymlinkProgram.

>> 	Made installation of unmanaged files use hard links and fall back to  
>> copy
>
> Hard links are a bad idea for installation of unmanaged files, because
> when you edit a file in the unmanaged location, it will modify the
> files under Resources/ (this will "taint" the program, will break
> signature verification and make it easy to get site-specific stuff
> stored by accident in packages).
>
Fair enough, but perhaps you should have mentioned this in the thread  
"Suggestions to Compile"?
Otoh, most unmanaged files are static (aren't all), so this shouldn't be  
an issue(?).

-- 
/Jonas

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