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Re: [p2-dev] System wide installations on Fedora
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you should try to get rid of manual operations in the plug-ins directory (which makes it necessary to "reconcile" the installation metadata with the file system afterwards), but rather install the bundles properly with the director.
I am not an expert on shared installs though, so maybe someone else can give you more hints on how to do this exactly.
That was my first attempt. The problem is that rpm is not very
cooperative here. It expects all files to be in their final destination
when the rpm is built and the system expects the rpm to know about all
the files it brings to the system.
This restriction means two things:
- First we cannot have the new files in a temporary location to act as
the source for the p2director. We would have to install the files
permanently somewhere then p2director would copy them to the proper
directories and we end up with two sets of files on the system.
- The second issue is that if the p2director creates a bunch of files
that the rpm does not know about they will not will not be uninstalled
properly when the rpm is removed. Also the rpm verification system will
not work properly.
After playing with that for a while it seemed that the reconciler would
work very nicely with rpm.
Thanks for the feedback!
Sami
