This one time, at band camp, Sam Morris said: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:26:15 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > is there a policy on whether an executable is permitted to update itself? i > > personally believe that in order to maintain the security of the system, apt > > and apt alone should be used to install software updates. recently i > > submitted a bug on azureus about how it should not urge users to install > > updates outside of apt (http://bugs.debian.org/405997), which was quickly > > closed by the maintainer. his reasoning was that users should be given the > > choice of using apt or the built-in updater. was this bug handled > > correctly? > > How does the azureus package work around the fact that only root can write > to the package files? It saves the new .jar to ~/.azureus, which is first in the search path. This also prevents you from using the shipped .jar in the deb. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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