Shall we support the autorun feature?

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Scott!

Scott James Remnant [2005-01-04 15:38 +0000]:
> > > How does this solve the primary use-case?
> > > 
> > > lit. "warty user puts the hoary CD in their drive"
> > 
> > - user puts in the drive
> > - hal notices this, creates new volume and executes the callout
> >   scripts
> > - Michael provided a callout script that checks whether a CD is an
> >   Ubuntu package CD
> > - this callout script then triggers the startup of the upgrading
> >   application
> > 
> Where does this callout script go?

/etc/hal/device.d/, I suppose. The script sends a message to the
upgrade notifier daemon (which runs in the user's session). This
daemon then initiates the actual upgrading application.

Martin

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