On Dec 3, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Thadeus Burgess wrote: > create checksums of the important files on app creation (web2py_ajax.html, > admin files, etc.etc). > > Check these checksums upon upgrade, if they differ, the app has been altered.
Yes, that's the signature file I was suggesting. I think you'd want to do it for every file that would be replaced, but are there "unimportant" files? > > -Thadeus > > > > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Dec 3, 2009, at 9:28 AM, mdipierro wrote: > > > why? We only need to check if the app version is less then the current > > web2py version and eventually display a link that gives the admin the > > option to install the latest version of the app. > > > > Are you thinking of something different? > > Yes, I'm thinking of detecting whether the apps have been modified by the > user. > > A reasonable default policy would be to automatically upgrade (on an app by > app basis) apps that have not been modified since installation or the last > upgrade. > > > > > > On Dec 3, 11:23 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> On Dec 3, 2009, at 9:18 AM, mdipierro wrote: > >> > >>> It could be even simpler like keep a copy of the VERSION file into > >>> each of the basic apps. > >> > >> What would be in the file? It'd have to be more than the version number > >> and timestamp. > >> > >> > >> > >>> On Dec 3, 11:12 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > >>>> On Dec 3, 2009, at 9:06 AM, salingrosso wrote: > >> > >>>>> We can make it a link of the side-bar that is alway there to remind us > >>>>> that we have an option to upgrade apps if we have not done so. It > >>>>> would be non-intrusive. The actual popup to point us to the link would > >>>>> appear only once. > >> > >>>>> I think this is the best solution. > >> > >>>> If the standard apps had a supplementary signature file with, say, MD5 > >>>> hashes of all the sources, we could detect whether there had been > >>>> modifications and act accordingly. > >> > >>>> Note also that the current scheme (--upgrade) is all or nothing, but > >>>> it's not likely that a developer would be modifying all three of the > >>>> standard apps. > >> > >>>> (Me, I use my upgrade script that automatically snapshots the old > >>>> version before overwriting it.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
