Re: Installer-dev Digest, Vol 94, Issue 29
Re: Installer-dev Digest, Vol 94, Issue 29
- Subject: Re: Installer-dev Digest, Vol 94, Issue 29
- From: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:55:30 +0200
2 solutions:
- manually: you can edit the .dist file with any text file editor (even vi).
- automatically:
. either you write a script to look for the "no" string and replace
it with "yes" or you edit the .dist XML file with some command line
tools (which I don't know) that lets you parse/modify a XML file.
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:20 PM, vishnu kulkarni <email@hidden> wrote:
> What's the best way to modify the distribution.dist file inorder to
> allow the external scripts to run?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vishnu
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Stephane Sudre <email@hidden> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:23 PM, vishnu kulkarni <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi Stephane,
>>>
>>> Thanks for explanation. But if i include only memory requirement, it
>>> does not create any dist file. When I add Disk space requirement and
>>> include a preflight script along with the package it fails while
>>> installing. If I do not include the script it works fine or vice
>>> versa, If i include script and removed disk space requirement it
>>> works. I think it's something to do with the dist file. I have pasted
>>> just a line from the dist file, I tried changing it though. But i
>>> guess you might help me out .
>>>
>>> options customize="never" allow-external-scripts="no" ( Script fails
>>> because of this ? ) Do i need to allow external scripts to run?
>>>> rootVolumeOnly="true"/>
>>>> <installation-check script="pm_install_check();"/>
>>>> <volume-check script="pm_volume_check();"/>
>>
>> If you're calling an external shell script from the installation- or
>> volume-check scripts, yes you need to allow external scripts. Even if
>> the shell script ends up being embedded in the distribution.
>
>
>
> --
> vishnu
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