a simple solution to Package, preinst/postinst/etc

Avi Bryant avi.bryant at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 10:37:29 UTC 2005


On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:23:08 +0100, Michal <michal-list at auf.net> wrote:

> i. add 4 instance variables to PackageInfo: beforeInstall,
> afterInstall, beforeRemoval, afterRemoval.
> 
> ii. clone the ChangeSorter to show a list of package and the content
> of these 4 variables as a a method in a pane, very much like
> ChangeSorter does for the current preamble/postscript.
> 
> iii. add a method that creates a SAR from this new PackageInfo,
> containing an mcz of the code and relevant (un/)install code in the
> standard places ('install/preamble', etc.)

Or, better yet, add new definition types to Monticello for these so
that all you need is the .mcz file.
If this is what people want it should be easy enough to do; the main
thing is just to get the tool support for editing these things.

Avi



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