[Fwd: Re: Odd occurance when installing 764]

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 29 Sep 2008, at 02:06, Michael Stone wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 03:21:49PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
>>> To Michael: Not sure who to direct this to, but should the post
>>> install scripts do some extra checks for this potential upgrade
>>> fluff? Not sure how many upgrades this could effect.
>>
>> What might we do with it if we found it?
>
> Well I can't think of a reasonable reason for leaving an old copy of
> Journal kicking around in /home/olpc/Activities (faint chance a dev is

It's useful if you want to alt-boot back to an old build.

> The Clac issue I guess is a special case in that that there was a
> 'Calculate' from MIT that was replaced by Reinier's 'Calc' at some
> point (at least as I understand the history), so I'm guessing
> bundle_id didn't exist  (or perhaps now depreciated service thingy) so
> there's no way the updater would officially know to replace/remove
> Calc and replace with Calculate. This could be a special case for post
> cleanup, removing Calc if Calculate has been installed.

In 9.1, I hope that Michael will provide me with the security
framework I need to handle 'upgrades' between bundles with different
IDs (and authors!), so I can express that 'calculate' is really an
updated 'calc' and have that managed properly.  So the 'fluff' ought
to be removed at that time.

> P.S. what's the post install script called by the way? I'm sure I've
> seen it mentioned in passing or rushing past the console after an
> install, doing 'rainbow' type stuff I think, hence me invoking your
> name here.

olpc-configure, part of the olpc-utils package.  It's really a "first
boot" script, but you "first boot" immediately "post install" so it
wears both hats.
 --scott

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