code signing/secure boot sequence (Re: [OLPC-devel] Re: wireless/libertas: miscellaneous fixes)

[James Morris]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Christopher Blizzard wrote:

> Instead of downloading a package and dropping it into your filesystem 
> with files all over the place, everything runs from a single directory 
> location.  You should be able to pick up an application and move it from 
> one place on the filestem and move it somewhere else and have it just work.

> 2. If you have an installed application you can just tar it up and give 
> it to someone else.

What about packing applications & runtime environment into fs images, 
which are transparently loopback mounted when the user clicks on them?


This seems to work well in some situations under OSX.


- James
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James Morris
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