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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 14:22:49 -0700
From: Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com>
To: William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org>
Cc: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>,
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] [PATCH] testing/sword: add new package
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:51:21AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:44:04 -0700
> > Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Sword is a library for free Bible software.
> >> It can also be used for other books.
> > ...
> >
> 
> Since this package was added to testing, there was a discussion on an
> IRC channel where this software became interesting to test, as I
> wanted to factcheck some things being claimed on it.
> 
> Unfortunately, I discovered that after installing sword and
> sword-utils, and then running:
> 
> user$ installmgr -init
> [...]
> user$ installmgr -r CrossWire
> user$ installmgr -ri CrossWire KJV
> 
> Then doing a query using diatheke:
> 
> user$ diatheke -b KJV -k ...
> 
> Nothing came up.  Running strace(1) on diatheke showed it required the
> data files to be installed as root before the software would function
> correctly.
> 
> With the software configured as root, it functions correctly, however
> I believe this is a policy violation as software is typically supposed
> to be accessible to the user without configuration systemwide, and
> installmgr does *something* with the data it downloads when running as
> a user.

installmgr installs "modules" to a configured location.
This location is set by DataPath and extended by AddDataPath in the
[INSTALL] section.
/etc/sword.conf points it at /usr/share/sword; this is not writeable.
I'm not aware of any way to point it at a sane default that everyone can use.
If there are NO config files, it will look for ~/.sword/mods.d, and install
into ~/.sword/modules.

installmgr won't work right unless it can find mods.conf or a writeable
mods.d directory in the DataPath.
If it can figure out where it /should/ put modules, it will run,
downloading the modules to a per-repository location.
Then it will move them into location or silently delete them.

Now I need to figure out what's the right fix.
I guess installmgr should error out if it can't write somewhere.
Debian's approach is to require at least one package containing a
SWORD module.

Thanks,
Isaac Dunham


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