[haiku-bugs] [Haiku] #11502: Package management: implement the ability to write data out of read only directories
- From: "Giova84" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 03:42:36 -0000
#11502: Package management: implement the ability to write data out of read only
directories
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Reporter: Giova84 | Owner: bonefish
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone: R1
Component: Servers/package_daemon | Version: R1/Development
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: x86 |
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Well, currently when we install a package, the only way to write data out
of the read only directories, atm, is to rely on post_install scripts.
In this page [https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/PackageManagement/TODO] I've
read that someday the package system will get rid of these post_install
scripts, and I agree: would be a better and more clean way achieve this
ability (write data out of read only directories) in the structure of
HPKG's files. There is some task about?
As reference I have seen this similar ticket #10025 which is about Desktop
symlinks (in that ticket i read about "allow the desktop directory to be
replaced with a virtual directory") , but would be also useful (for those
which, eg like TTcoder, prepare packages/OEM installations for customers)
implementing this ability for any other directory. Eg, to mention some of
these, to "/boot/home/config/settings/Tracker/Tracker New Templates." or
"/boot/home/config/settings/boot/launch"
I also do something similar as TTcoder does, since I work in IT support
(and I'm waiting for Haiku R1B1 to start to promote a little bit more this
nice OS).
For some OEM installations, there would be the necessity to supply
everything as default, for some particular situations and customers, to
provide them a system which is ready to use, also in terms of
applications, settings and behaviour.
In anyway i set this ticket as low priority, since for now the
post_install scripts are able to do the job.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/11502>
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