[Fusioninventory-devel] Change in setup directories handling

[Gonéri Le Bouder]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:18:44AM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> Le 23/10/2010 19:40, Gonéri Le Bouder a écrit :
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:39:33PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> >> Here is the issue with setup directory handling in the agent:
> >> http://forge.fusioninventory.org/issues/273
> >>
> >> I just made some radical changes in my branch to fix this issue, and
> >> enhance the situation:
> >> - basevardir and share-dir options don't exist anymore
> > --basevardir was useful for the case the user was not allowed to write
> > on the default directory. How do you deal with this situation now?
> Anyway, that's indeed a problem if you run an *installed* agent with a
> different user that's the one than installed it, and you can't switch
> back to the installing user to make the directory writable by the second
> user. In that case, you'd better just run the agent from its extraction
> directory, or reinstall it with the second user.
> 
> But is this scenario realistic enough to deserve a runtime option (by
> opposition to an installation time one) ?Especially as we advice people
> to run the agent as root users...
Yes, I don't think so too

> >> - in the git tree, those values match local tree, so it just works,
> >> without the need for --devlib option
> > How do you detect when you are in the git tree?
> Because you run an unmodified executable.
Oh ok.

[...]
> Do we agree on that ?
ok

[...]
> I just took advantage of the post-installation process needed for first
> issue to implement this. And while just needing another substitution in
> Makefile.PL, it also make the agent code simpler.
So if understand, we have "just" to hack NSIS script so the install will
write a .pm file with the correct path after the installation.
/me runs :)

Best regards,

    Gonéri Le bouder
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