Re: Rainbow 0.7.12 Announcement
To follow on (regarding Sonata and Opera) : Noticed that whereas the without-Rainbow Activities had their files located in /home/olpc/.something, with-Rainbow-0.7.12 those files were apparently assigned as /root/.something That would explain why these Activities did not find their previous configurations. [Had to go in and manually clean out /root after excluding these Activities from the scope of the Rainbow-0.7.12 affect.] I had started these Activities by clicking on their respective icons in the F3 "Activity Ring". Even though I invoked F3 at a time when I had been (F4) in Terminal running as root, I would have expected these Activities to have been launched with HOME=/home/olpc. mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Rainbow 0.7.12 Announcement
Current versions of Develop should not need special dispensation. Versions up to about 24 did need it. On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Earlier, I had written: > >Of various Activities to which I previously gave "special dispensation" > >from Rainbow, three now launch from the activity ring without > needing that > >dispensation -- Develop, Sonata, and Opera. > > I spoke too soon. > > I'm not familiar with 'Develop', so I don't know how it was affected > by Rainbow. But the other two Activities use /home/olpc/.something > for their files (Sonata: .mpd; Opera: .opera). In both cases, the > new Rainbow "substituted" isolation paths which were different, so > the existing configurations of those Activities were not accessed. > [Query - does Rainbow respect case? Sonata refers to '.mpd/Music'. > With Rainbow the substitute name was 'isolation-something/music'.] > > I've now reverted to excluding Sonata and Opera from Rainbow. > > mikus > > ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Rainbow 0.7.12 Announcement
Earlier, I had written: >Of various Activities to which I previously gave "special dispensation" >from Rainbow, three now launch from the activity ring without needing that >dispensation -- Develop, Sonata, and Opera. I spoke too soon. I'm not familiar with 'Develop', so I don't know how it was affected by Rainbow. But the other two Activities use /home/olpc/.something for their files (Sonata: .mpd; Opera: .opera). In both cases, the new Rainbow "substituted" isolation paths which were different, so the existing configurations of those Activities were not accessed. [Query - does Rainbow respect case? Sonata refers to '.mpd/Music'. With Rainbow the substitute name was 'isolation-something/music'.] I've now reverted to excluding Sonata and Opera from Rainbow. mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Rainbow 0.7.12 Announcement
On 06.05.2008, at 05:16, Michael Stone wrote: > - a compatibility patch which makes $HOME writable by activities by > setting $HOME and $SAR/instance equal to one another. Why instance? Only the data directory persists, so that would seem a much more natural choice. - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Rainbow 0.7.12 Announcement
> in order to solicit more widespread testing Installed it manually (yum) on my G1G1. Of various Activities to which I previously gave "special dispensation" from Rainbow, three now launch from the activity ring without needing that dispensation -- Develop, Sonata, and Opera. Activities I tried for which even the new Rainbow shows error exceptions were 'TuxPaint' and 'KuKu'. mikus p.s. [I had already increased the values in the 'rainbow' script.] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Rainbow 0.7.12 Announcement
Folks, I've released a new rainbow, version 0.7.12 into Joyride in order to solicit more widespread testing of some changes that I'd like to incorporate into our next release. This version has some tasty things like - delayed rainbow startup (which will allow X to win the rainbow/X startup race [#6797] more frequently) contributed by Blake Setlow, - "fail-safe" handling of preloading-related import errors, and - a compatibility patch which makes $HOME writable by activities by setting $HOME and $SAR/instance equal to one another. The final patch requires that we diverge from the version-1-spool-format used by previous versions of rainbow. User applications which automatically always follow symlinks should require no changes; however, prior versions of Rainbow's uid garbage collector will complain noisily at boot and will probably be unable to collect uids allocated by rainbow-0.7.12 or later. Prior versions of Rainbow may become unable to launch activities which have been launched by rainbow-0.7.12 or later. If either of these issues sound like trouble, we can bump the spool format version number (i.e. start locating version 2 spools in /home/olpc/isolation/2/), provide a migration tool, and propagate the change throughout client software. (The only software that I know of which cares is the DataStore, and it's easily patched.) Comments? Michael P.S. - Further review of the diffs from the rainbow-0.7.11 to rainbow-0.7.12 tags in the security repo is quite welcome. Please don't be shy if you see ways that this code can be improved! ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
