Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 14:50:55 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Stuart Cardall <developer@it-offshore.co.uk>
Cc: alpine-aports@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [alpine-aports] [PATCH 3/3] testing/udevil: new aport
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On Tue,  5 May 2015 00:26:28 +0000
Stuart Cardall <developer@it-offshore.co.uk> wrote:

> +++ b/testing/udevil/udevil.post-install
> @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +
> +NORMAL="\033[1;0m"
> +STRONG="\033[1;1m"
> +GREEN="\033[1;32m"
> +
> +print_strong() {
> +        local prompt="${STRONG}$1 ${GREEN}$2${NORMAL}"
> +        printf "${prompt} %s\n"
> +}
> +
> +print_strong "\nTo mount / unmount devices without the root password:" " add your user account to the 'plugdev' group."
> +print_strong "\nOptional dependencies:"
> +print_strong "\nzenity: " "	(devmon popups)"
> +print_strong "davfs2: " "	(mount WebDAV resources)"
> +print_strong "cifs-utils: " "	(mounting samba shares)"
> +print_strong "curlftpfs: " "	(mounting ftp shares)"
> +print_strong "nfs-utils: " "	(mounting nfs shares)"
> +print_strong "sshfs-fuse: " "	(mounting sftp shares)"
> +print_strong "eject: " "	(eject via devmon)"
> +exit 0
> +

I am not sure I like the post-install script.

- There is no guarantee that there are color support. (think: apk add
  $packages > logfile)

- There is no guarantee user reach to read it. package might be
  installed together with 100 other packages.

- It is meaningless to show this message every reboot. (tmpfs install)

- If every package did something like this it would slow down the
  install.


Can we remove the post-install and create a doc on the wiki instead?

If we want this kind of informative messages for installed packages,
then we should consider add this as a feature for apk-tools or similar.

The message should be displayed after install (maybe via trigger?) and
maybe we want be able to read the message long time after package was
installed.

Maybe store them as /usr/share/apk-tools/$pkgname/post-install-message
or similar.

In any case, I don't like doing it from post-install.

-nc


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