global commands
Stefan Karrmann <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Dec 2002 22:53:40 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.djb.package |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <20021222215340.GB293@johann> |
How can I find all globally registered commands of package foo?
1. Take all files in /package/foo/command ?
Is this really the current convention or does a package exist
with private or local commands in it?
2. Create a policy to use the file /package/foo/package/registered as
a reference with one command per line.
a. What to do with strange commands which contains <EOL> characters?
(We may restrict the commands names to (regex) [a-z0-9_\[-]* .)
b. Is /package/foo/package/command for this purpose?
3. Create a policy to put globally registered commands in, e.g.
/package/foo/cmd-reg .
4. Only the package knows which commands of /package/foo/command are
globally registered. Its command /package/foo/package/upgrade
sets the current-version link AND the symlinks from /command.
Thus, it must run as root to update symlinks in /command and
may run `rm -rf /' by accident.
If the globally registered commands are declared in a file like in (2)
a slash-package manager can easily use this information to update
/command.
Sincerly,
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Stefan Karrmann