Hi Norman,

I suspected the reason was something like that, but I think handling it at the launcher level is enough, and that choosing not to copy over all the depot sources is redundant.

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 11:36 AM John J. Karcher <devuser@alternateapproach.com> wrote:
On 10/02/2018 04:28 AM, Norman Feske wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On 02.10.2018 07:07, Nobody III wrote:
>> I'm not entirely sure why they're hardcoded, but
>> it's easy enough to copy the directory over yourself.
>
> just to clarify, the reason is given in the documentation [1], in the
> "Runtime Management" Section:
>
>    "By default, the depot is initialized such that the Sculpt
>     system accepts software published by Genode's core developers."
>
> My line of thinking is that extending the whitelist of accepted software
> providers should be a deliberate decision by the user.
>
> In the current version, this can be accomplished by adding a
> corresponding subdirectory (with the 'download' and 'pubkey' files) to
> the depot. The templates at /share/depot conveniently contain all
> sources present in the Genode source repository [2], which can be copied
> into the depot. Later versions of Sculpt might offer a graphical user
> interface for this operation.

I was afraid it was something simple like that.  Thanks!

_______________________________________________
Genode users mailing list
users@lists.genode.org
https://lists.genode.org/listinfo/users