From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-12-30T20:35:26+09:00
Subject: FreeRIDE 0.5.0rc1: issues while packaging


I've experienced the following with the Debian packages I just made;
examination of the official RPM package shows that this issue is common
to all packages:

the core classes and the plugins try to write in read-only YAML files,
placed somewhere in /usr/lib/freeride and/or /usr/share/freeride.

This means that some things such as running the program, exiting
cleanly, etc, won't work.

A typical error message would be 
/usr/share/freeride/freebase/readers.rb:28:in `initialize': Permission
denied -
"/usr/share/freeride/plugins/rubyide_gui/outputpane.yaml"
(Errno::EACCES)
        from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/readers.rb:28:in `new'
        from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/readers.rb:28:in `save'
        from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/properties.rb:92:in `save'
        from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/properties.rb:54:in
`databus_notify'
        from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/databus.rb:615:in `notify'
        from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/databus.rb:610:in `each_value'
        from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/databus.rb:610:in `notify'
        from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/databus.rb:619:in `notify'
         ... 24 levels...
        from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/core.rb:35:in `new'
        from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/core.rb:35:in `startup'
        from /usr/share/freeride/freeride.rb:53:in `startup'
        from /usr/share/freeride/freeride.rb:66

After a quick look at the code, I think I identified some of the methods
that might need modification to support per-user (in $HOME) properties;
but I don't dare do it since (a) I'm not familiar at all w/ FreeRIDE and
(b) I don't know what to do about Windows.

FreeBASE::Plugin#initialize
FreeBASE::YAMLPropertiesReader.save
FreeBASE::YAMLPropertiesReader.load
FreeBASE::REXMLPropertiesReader.save
FreeBASE::REXMLPropertiesReader.load
FreeBASE::YAMLConfigurationReader.load_files

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