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tjdrico · #17 05-28-2004, 09:58 AM

A problem with automated installers is that they can barf horribly when being applied over an already-hacked system. For example, a hack I'm working on at the moment has this instruction:

Code:

FIND
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	'cansetthreadvisibility'   => 524288
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REPLACE WITH
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	'cansetthreadvisibility'   => 524288,
	'canpostvbookieevent'   => 1048576,
	'canbet'   => 2097152
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That's great, unless a previous hack has been installed with its own permission specified for 1048576. At least with a human being reviewing changes as they are made, they can cater for this if they know what they're doing. I wouldn't be confident of writing something that could cope with this sort of thing automatically though.

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