[haiku-development] NetFS settings
- From: Sean Healy <jalopeura@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:51:11 -0700
Hi,
I am working on converting NetFS to a package. There are a couple of
required driver settings files. I checked driver_settings.cpp and found
that it checks only the user settings folder, which means I do not have
the option of turning these settings files into global settings files.
However, while global settings files are automatically installed and/or
updated by the package management system (or at least can be), user
settings are not.
The official (?) package policy [1] says "A post-install script should be
considered the last resort. It should only be used, if there's no
reasonable alternative."
My current solution is to put template settings files into the package,
along with a note in the metadata that if this is the first installation
on the system, the user needs to manually copy those files.
I don't really like that solution, because these settings files are
required, not optional, so the user is forced to perform an extra step
before the software is usable.
So unless the package management gurus can suggest a better alternative, I
think this is an appropriate case for a post-install script, to check
whether the user has the proper files already and if not, to copy the
templates.
What say you?
And is there a good example somewhere of a post-install script?
[1] https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/PackageManagement/PackagingPolicy
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