Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] PostInst delayed to real system

2011-08-11 Thread Hanno Schupp
Hi, In the current approach there is an inherent limitation in that the uci-default scripts run before the application init.d scripts are run. While this is desirable for many situations, it is an issue in those cases you need to have the network up, switch recognised, wifi driver identified etc.

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] PostInst delayed to real system

2011-08-11 Thread Ithamar R. Adema
Hi, On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 11:04 +0200, Lukas Macura wrote: > I definitely understand this.. It was little bit confusing for me, > that uci-defaults are not related only to uci things.. Maybe another > users are confused too because its name. Maybe we could use some > /etc/pkg-defaults too in futur

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] PostInst delayed to real system

2011-08-11 Thread Lukas Macura
Thank you, I definitely understand this.. It was little bit confusing for me, that uci-defaults are not related only to uci things.. Maybe another users are confused too because its name. Maybe we could use some /etc/pkg-defaults too in future.. Even if it will do same thing in practical, operati

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] PostInst delayed to real system

2011-08-11 Thread Ithamar R. Adema
Hi Lukas, On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 08:13 +0200, Lukas Macura wrote: > > So, I really do not want to SPAM on this conference, but my question > is: > > - Should OpenWrt take care of this scenarios? Or it is package > specific and every package which needs things like this should do it > by itself? >

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] PostInst delayed to real system

2011-08-10 Thread Lukas Macura
Hi Ithamar, no, our problem is not uci-defaults. I will try to give some real examples, because 1 example is better than 1000 words ;) - You want to install some sql server into image. And you want to preinit its database by some default data. You cannot do this during image creation. You ne

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] PostInst delayed to real system

2011-08-08 Thread Ithamar R. Adema
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 20:50 +0200, Lukas Macura wrote: > I know this is little bit more complicated, but maybe it could be used > by more packages to do something useful only one time and only in real > device (like copying some files in right place or analysing target > system to modify them). Wh

[OpenWrt-Devel] PostInst delayed to real system

2011-08-08 Thread Lukas Macura
Hi to all, in my latest thread, there was discussion about overwriting some config files of one package by another package. Even if it sounds bad, it can be useful in some scenarios. When thinking about this, let us discuss about some theoretical opkg expansion of "postinst.real" or something