[Sugar-devel] clash of user- and system-installed activities (was: Release Physics-3)

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Jonas Smedegaard<dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:15:29PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> Do you have Physics-2 installed on the SoaS? Depending on the SoaS
>> version you have, the early ones had Activities installed in non-
>> standard places, with non user permissions, and sometimes symbolic
>> links :-( You would need to drop down into terminal, find and remove
>> that Physics.activity folder. Then the normal install process should
>> work as normal.
>>
>> FWIW: On old SoaS, my first task would be to drop into the Terminal
>> and clean this all up manually, so that all the *.activity directories
>> were migrated the expected ~/Activities, and ownership permissions of
>> them given back to the user (recursive chown on ~/Activities). In the
>> current SoaS activities are installed from their .xo bundles so this
>> is no longer an issue :-)
>
> Is this an issue specific to SoaS and/or Physics, or generally a limitation
> of current Sugar that older system-installed Activities disturb newer
> user-installed ones?
>
> (or did I get it wrong that that was the actual issue here?)
>

I think you got it right.

-walter

> Kind regards,
>
>  - Jonas
>
> Worried if Debian-packages activities conflict with user-installed ones.
>
>
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