Sculpt VC Depot Configuration

[Nobody III]

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 at 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!
>
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