Re: Autopackage creation

"Hylke Donker" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.autopackage.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Eugene Zolenko <EugeneZolenko-XYgkjQFSZqy1Z/[email protected]>
wrote:

> > But how can I require atleast 1.2.5 without getting such error?
>
> That's not an error, that's by design. I don't remember exact reason
> behind this, but it was something security related.
>
> You still can double click packages if you have support code installed,
> so only terminal users will see that. (And those should be able to
> figure it out :)).
>
> BTW, if you want to require at least 1.2.5 (but not 1.2.4), you'll need
> to patch autopackage a bit :)).
>
> In
> /usr/share/autopackage/stub.2.template
> there is
> export AUTOPACKAGETERGET="%AutopackageTarget%"


Ah ok, thanks for the information.

> What I like about the sealed packages is the fact they can work also
offline (they can for instance be distributed on magazine's CDs).

Unfortunately I don't have that problem since my program requires an
internet-connection.


>
>
> You'll need to hardcode it to be 1.2.5, otherwise makepackage will
> replace it with 1.2, and any 1.2 will do, as per CompareVersions()
> specification.
>
> *hides behind cover before autopackage devs hit him with a brick :).
>
> I do this for my packages, since I depend on several bugfixes that are
> in later 1.2.x releases.
>
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