Re: Autopackage installation systemwide/local

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Isak Savo <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Jan Niklas Hasse <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Hylke Donker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >  > Hi,
> >  > To have patches installed correctly I would like to have a
> command-line
> >  > argument to force the installation system-wide or local.
> >  > For example, when I execute something like this: `package install
> my.package
> >  > --system-wide` it should not give the user a choise to install it in
> the
> >  > local directory. Is there such thing?
> >
> >  No, afaik there is no such option. But you can add "RootOnly" to your
> >  package specfile to force installation as root, but I think that's not
> >  what you want, is it?
>
> No, there are no such argument. And frankly, why would there be one?
>
> It's the user that is making the installation, and if that user wishes
> to install as root, (s)he can:
>  a) run as root directly (sudo/su -c)
> or
>  b) enter the password when asked for by autopackage


I have autopackage embedded in my program(the frontend is intergrated in my
program). I know whether the user chose to install a package system-wide or
local, but I wanted my patches to be properly installed. For example, if the
user chose to install the package locally, I don't want the user to install
the patch system-wide.


>
>
> If the *packager* wants to specify 'this must be installed systemwide'
> then RootOnly is the key to use, as pointed out by Jan Niklas Hasse
>
> >  > If not, would it be hard to make such
> >  > thing?
> >
> >  I think it would be quiet easy. If you like, I could create a patch
> >  for this within the next week.
>

That would be very nice :-)


> >  Let's wait what one of the autopackage developers say and maybe open a
> >  ticket in trac then.
> >
>
> I'd like to hear a good use case for such a switch before opening a
> ticket.
>
> -Isak
>
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