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| Ludovic Champenois | Oct 11, 2009 3:01 pm | |
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| Ludovic Champenois | Oct 11, 2009 4:34 pm | |
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| Ludovic Champenois | Oct 11, 2009 8:19 pm | |
| Ludovic Champenois | Oct 26, 2009 7:43 am | |
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| Christopher Kampmeier | Nov 25, 2009 6:58 am | |
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| Christopher Kampmeier | Nov 25, 2009 4:35 pm | |
| Ludovic Champenois | Nov 26, 2009 11:24 am |
| Subject: | Re: v3 + UC issue: Latest nightly build for GlassFish Tools Bundle For Eclipse 1.2 is now available: (1.1.7) | |
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| From: | Ludovic Champenois (Ludo...@Sun.COM) | |
| Date: | Nov 26, 2009 11:24:21 am | |
| List: | net.java.dev.glassfish.quality | |
Christopher Kampmeier wrote:
FYI: For doc and tracking purposes, here's the GF Eclipse bundle issue:
https://glassfishplugins.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=257
Fixed now. Ludo
Other pointers will be added to that issue after I eat some turkey (not crow, turkey).
Chris
Christopher Kampmeier wrote:
Ludovic Champenois wrote:
Christopher Kampmeier wrote:
Hi Ludo,
At least on Mac OS X,
Only Mac does this native protected install. All other installers use the regular user that launches the installer.
this bundle suffers from the same root install + pkg(5) issue as even the current NetBeans + GlassFish v3 bundles. ie. out of the box, use of Update Tool, the pkg(1) CLI and desktop notifier + Software Update doesn't work. (If these features are not part of the test plan, they need to be added).
Assuming that the user managing the installation is usually not root, the post install workaround is to:
$ sudo chown -R <user id>:<group id> /Applications/GlassFish-Tools-Bundle-For-Eclipse-1.1.7.app/Contents/MacOS/glassfishv3
Hum, for 1 single user, yes, maybe?
That's a fundamental limitation here with pkg(5): shared group with appropriate file permissions is not sufficient. See further info below.
pkg(5) and user images don't have any problem when the owning user performs the management tasks: be it root or a non-root. The problem is when trying to achieve shared management across users with a common group.
Doing this will allow the non-root user to use the Update Tool GUI and pkg(1) CLI to manage the installation of v3. It will also enable the desktop notifier and Software Update GUIs, which run as the non-root user, to inspect and update the image.
I am in the process of adding the gory details of why this is a problem when pkg(5) is involved to an existing bug report filed under Update Center.
So this is more on the UC side?
Within pkg(5).
I'll also update the v3 tracking bug once those details are updated.
We should also file a tracking bug for the Eclipse + v3 bundle. Where is that issue tracker? (Same goes for NetBeans because it's not clear to me that there is a tracking bug for the NetBeans installer).
I haven't downloaded and tried the bundles on other OS platforms, but a root install on those and an attempt to manage the install as a non-root user will result in the same issue. (Being in the same group ID doesn't help - which will be explained in the underlying UC bug report).
It's not clear to me whether you have an option to wire your installer to install the content as non-root. I see about 15% of my apps under /Applications installed as non-root.
Let me see what I can do in the postflight script of our installer...Not sure if there, at that time I can get the regular user name as the installer has already asked for the root password to run the process. If I can, it is an easy change.
Chmod a+w would not do the same?
No. That's insufficient.
Package maintainers specify in their package specifications the ownership and permissions to apply to newly installed and updated files. If a file exists and is owned by root and an updated package calls for a change to the permissions on the file, pkg(5) will attempt to change the permission. That's fine when the managing user is the owning user. However, when the managing user is not the owner, but is still part of the shared group, depending on the extent of the permissions change, the chmod operation may fail. For example:
$ id
uid=501(ckamps) gid=100(_lpoperator) groups=80(admin),...
$ ls -al sges-v3-prelude/pkg/javadocs/resources/inherit.gif
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root admin 57 Jul 8 22:36 sges-v3-prelude/pkg/javadocs/resources/inherit.gif
$ chmod 0660 sges-v3-prelude/pkg/javadocs/resources/inherit.gif
chmod: Unable to change file mode on sges-v3-prelude/pkg/javadocs/resources/inherit.gif: Operation not permitted
The UC team will be running the overall scenario by the pkg(5) community to see if there's some room for more flexibility to allow for at least shared management when a common group ID is involved. Since I don't believe that in general other adopters of pkg(5) for layered use will want to give up ability to specify and manage file level permissions capability, there might not be much that can be done at the pkg(5) level.
I doubt that NetBean's use of NBMs supports use of file level permissions by package maintainers. If it did, it would have to deal with the same fundamental issue. Eclipse's update infrastructure may be similar in this respect.
Chris
Ludo
Installing as non-root from the get go would certainly avoid the issue pkg(5) has with the combo of root ownership + non-root management. I know, NetBeans doesn't have an issue with the combo as long as a common group ID is in effect and permissions are proper, but pkg(5) is different in that it attempts to actively manages file permissions whereas NBM does not. More will be doc'd in the UC bug report.
Chris
Ludovic Champenois wrote:
Hi,
The latest nightly build (1.1.7) for GlassFish Tools Bundle For Eclipse 1.2 is now available.
It contains:
* Latest Eclipse 3.5.1 IDE with WTP Java EE support * JSF Facelet plugin (from the Eclipse incubator project) to help the JSF 2.0 developer * Latest GlassFish v3 Java EE 6 Build 74 pre-registered and configured * JavaDB sample database pre-registered and configured * GlassFish Plugin (1.0.41) * Java EE 5 and updated Java EE 6 Javadoc code completion in the Java Editor * MySQL JDBC driver registered to the IDE * Maven m2 plugins * JAX-WS Metro plugin * GlassFish documentation * And optionally, a JDK 1.6. update 16
Get it from http://download.java.net/glassfish/eclipse/1.1.7/ and give us feedback. The stable 1.2 version will be available soon after the release of GlassFish Java EE 6 v3 release.
The stable 1.1 version is still available at http://download.java.net/glassfish/eclipse
Ludo