#6430 NORM Never A: Autoinstallation of bundles.

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#6430: Autoinstallation of bundles.
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 Reporter:  cscott       |       Owner:  mstone        
     Type:  defect       |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  distro       |     Version:                
 Keywords:  update.1.1?  |    Verified:  0             
 Blocking:               |   Blockedby:                
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 Bundles found with a magic name on a USB key should be automatically
 unpacked into /home.

 This is to support the near-term use case of distributing large library
 content in a school deployment with limited network
 connectivity/bandwidth.  Although in some cases it may be possible to have
 the kids individually click through the journal to install an .xol, if
 deployment team size/time is limited, a more efficient mechanism may be
 needed.

 The size of the library bundle may prohibit installing via the journal
 (since that will result in a copy in the journal and another unpacked on
 disk).

 Activities may be autoinstalled as static content in a library bundle
 (which may result in three copies of the activity ultimately ending up on
 the filesystem: one in the library, one in the journal, and one unpacked
 in /home) or directly (which raises some security issues, which may be
 partially addressed by activity isolation).

 Target for this bug is update.1.1; we're assuming that we can't get a
 "better" solution in place in that timeframe.

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