Re: Autopackage installation systemwide/local

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Jan Niklas Hasse <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Hylke Donker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Isak Savo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Hylke Donker <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Isak Savo <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > >
> > > > > 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.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure I understand what you mean with patches. Are they
> > > upgrades of existing packages or are they separate packages (different
> > > rootname) that are installed "on top" of already existing packages?
> >
> > They are seperate packages that are installed ontop of existing
> packages,
> > since I didn't know a better way to install updates.
> >
>
> Hmm... Maybe we should fix that by providing a "UpdateFor:" option to
> the meta section that takes an root name and says, that this package
> can only be installed over the specified version. What do you think?


I think that's a very good idea.


> Should we add the parameters to the package command anyway?


If there aren't any better solutions(which I don't think there are right
now) for my problem(or patching in general), then yes.


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