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  • Subject: [SM-Sorcery-Bugs] [Bug 9045] investigate fakeroot and zen-garden as alternatives to installwatch
  • Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:10:55 -0700 (PDT)

http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9045





------- Additional Comments From acedit AT armory.com 2005-06-10 09:10 -------
You assume that all spells will always work flawlessly. Bad assumption.

Installing to an INSTALL_ROOT then having sorcery do the 'real' install is
covered by other bugs, however, getting every spell converted to work that way
using the manual DESTDIR=$INSTALL_ROOT method is a long time coming and as i
learned from converting basesystem, is incredibly error prone. You're welcome
to
get to work if you want though... I disagree that by removing all safety nets,
and adding more complexity to all spells, everything will be safer.

Using fakeroot/zg, aside from the fact that with no work on the part of spell
writers implements INSTALL_ROOT once and for all, makes the process more safe
from misbehaving spells because they *cant* mess with the main system even if
the spell tries.

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