Re: ion3 packaging advice

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Per the license, it is ok if takes conscious user effort to disable
> the post-install script,

The only way to disable the post-install script file (besides removing
the .INSTALL file that is created inside the package tarball) would be
to pass the --noscriptlet option to the pacman package manager. The
pacman man page says:

 "--noscriptlet   If an install scriptlet exists, do not execute it.
Do not use this unless you know what you are doing."

> and the message is displayed prominently,
> i.e. not hidden among long install logs in batch installs. (Perhaps
> a 'read' would fix that, although annoying...)

If today was Sep 25, the output when installing ion-3-20080825 would
look as follows:

bash-3.2# date 09251522
Thu Sep 25 15:22:00 BRT 2008
bash-3.2# pacman -U ion-3-20080825-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
loading package data...
checking dependencies...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts
[#######################] 100%
(1/1) upgrading ion-3
[#######################] 100%
PLEASE NOTE:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is older than 28 days, so it may not be the latest version
of Ion-3. The author does not support old and/or obsoleted versions.
Please send any bug reports to the package maintainer, not the author.
------------------------------------------------------------------------


These install messages are considered to be very important in
archlinux, and will never be hidden from the user by the package
manager.

>
> Other than that, I'd obviously prefer more intelligent notifications
[snip]
> Obviously, such "call home" is somewhat annoying.. although much
> less than the application itself doing it at times other than the
> installation.. and it would be better if the information was
> obtained from the same source as the package. Distributors could
> keep a database of the information for all packages...)

Problems could arrise if the user is currently not connected to the
Internet when installing the package, too.


Thanks a lot for your reviews and advise. Do you confirm the packages,
if packaged as I described here, are freely redistributable according
to the trademark license?


Thanks and best regards,

Paulo Matias