Paladin.1.3.pkg still fails to install

[waddlesplash]

Obtained from here: ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/paladin/files/Paladin.1.3.pkg/download

It installs 6 files and then hits an error.

[codewrangler]

Try the one I posted on Haikuware....

​http://haikuware.com/directory/view-details/development/ides/paladin-13-hpkg

It's in Haiku Package format. You just drop it into /boot/home/config/packages and it should just show up in your applications menu on the deskbar.

[waddlesplash]

I knew that :) However, this PKG exhibits a bug in PackageInstaller, and so it still should be fixed.

[kallisti5]

The .pkg files will continue to fail as they expect to be able to write things to read-only paths. We need a work around binary that will extract .pkg files to a folder so they can be repackaged / used.

The work around for the moment is to boot R1A4 and use that to extract .pkg files.

[codewrangler]

kallisti5,

That's what I have already done. I then took the additional steps to create an HPKG for Paladin. You can find it posted on Haikuware.com:

​http://haikuware.com/directory/view-details/development/ides/paladin-13-hpkg

Just drop it into /boot/home/config/packages and it should just show up in your applications menu on the deskbar.

[stippi]

No, the package doesn't write anywhere. It is PackageInstaller which reads the package contents and executes scripts which then tries to write in read-only locations. But one can analyse the package and fix it in PackageInstaller (rewriting paths). Even modifying the post-install scripts was not beyond me. I already do that for other packages which try to directly copy/move files to read-only locations.

[kallisti5]

This one looks to have a solution as per ​http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/commit/?id=838c4c87790af97ef53e3a8ece82d5e66abe2b8b

We need to find all paths these packages are writing to that are read-only and redirect them to something writable.

... or maybe we could wrangle all .pkg installs into a single root directory? ~/legacypackage/. That way things can be ran and repackaged into hpkg's more easily post-pm.

[stippi]

You realize that "wrangling all .pkg installs into a single root directory" needs the same path rewriting implementation that already happens (although apparently incompletly so)?

[stippi]

Fixed in hrev47274.