OLPC-Update + RPMs WAS:Re: OLPC XO Opera browser as Sugar activity

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 02:19:09PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
>> > Care to explain the existence and functioning of olpc-configure?
>>
>> olpc-configure exists because /home/olpc is not managed by
>> olpc-update, and to do things like http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6432.
>>
>> (Also, in the case of /etc/sysconfig/i18n, as a means for bernie to
>> make build image changes without patching pilgrim.)
>>
>> I fail to see the relevance.
>
> I see olpc-configure as a poor replacement for post-installation /
> configuration hooks.

And I see RPM post-installation hooks as an imperfect solution to a
complex problem we can bypass altogether.

Please compare the number of lines of code in olpc-configure vs. the
summed number of lines of code in RPM post-installation scripts for
all packages in our build.
 --scott

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