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On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:52:34AM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote: |
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> tor 2001-09-20 klockan 01.46 skrev Morgan Christiansson: |
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> Hi! |
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> > *mozilla-0.9.3 segfaults when started as non-root, mozilla-bin-0.9.4 |
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> > doesn't work either. |
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> Hmm, you have to first start mozilla as root (once after install), then |
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> it should be fine to run it as any user. |
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The ebuild should inform the user of this caveat. |
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In fact, we should have some kind of global notices for the portage |
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system. When an ebuild has required or suggested post-install steps, these |
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should be added to the notices list. |
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The user would then do: |
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# notices |
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to list all notices |
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# notices mozilla |
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to list all notices pertaining to mozilla |
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# notices --del mozilla |
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to delete all notices pertaining to mozilla |
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For very many packages, it would be nice for the user to have an archive |
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of required, manual post-install steps. The entry in the notices list may |
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be a complete step-by-step howto for trivial stuff, or a reference to a |
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real howto on our website. |
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It might be of interest to be able to mark notices as done, but still be |
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able to bring them back at a later stage, when one wants to reconfigure a |
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package. |
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# notices --purge <ebuild> |
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will delete the notices for good |
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# notices --del <ebuild> |
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will just remove it from the list of active notices |
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# notices --undel <ebuild> |
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will reinstate the notice |
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In other distros, (Debian), required manual intervention in the |
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post-install step is covered by the apt's menu-system. We might not want |
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to do this, leaving the details and timing to the user. |
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Karl T |
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