74435 - Don't write to $HOME if not installing stuff there

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, defect)

Description

[Girish Manwani]

During the installation XPInstall engine write 2 files to the user's directory.
These files are mozver.dat and registry. For our release of Netscape 6 on
solaris we have a license agreement pop-up which checks for existing .mozilla
and if not asks for user agreement to license. 

With XPInstall writing to the user's home directory this test fails.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

XPInstall itself writes mozver.dat and registry into $HOME even if not 
installing anything there. registry is going away with the "post-install 
replace" bug.  Mozver.dat should be in the bin directory unless that's 
read-only.

Comment 2

[Girish Manwani]

hey dan,
seems this has been fixed dude ! dunno how.. i built mozilla yest. and running 
the installer did not write anything to my $HOME.. yohoo !! you can close this 
as fixed i guess :)

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This is "fixed" as a side-effect of something else that broke I think, I have
not yet changed this code.

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

Doesn't look like this is getting fixed before the freeze tonight.
Pushing out a milestone.  Please correct if I'm mistaken.

[Can we mark this WFM?]

Comment 5

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Please reopen if this comes back.

Comment 6

[Jimmy Lee]

Build: 2001-08-22-08-trunk(LINUX)

Only mozver.dat gets written to $home/.mozilla

Marking Verified.