On Unix-derived systems a directory must be marked as "executable" in
order to be accessible, so our previous mode of 0660 here was unsufficient
and would cause a failure if it happened to be the installer that was
creating the plugins directory for the first time here.
Now we'll make it executable and readable for all but only writable by
the same user/group. For consistency, we also make the selections file
itself readable by everyone. In both cases, the umask we are run with may
further constrain these modes.
Just as with the old installer mechanism, our goal is that explicit
provider installation is the only way that new provider versions can be
selected.
To achieve that, we conclude each call to EnsureProviderVersions by
writing a selections lock file into the target directory. A later caller
can then recall the selections from that file by calling SelectedPackages,
which both ensures that it selects the same set of versions and also
verifies that the checksums recorded by the installer still match.
This new selections.json file has a different layout than our old
plugins.json lock file. Not only does it use a different hashing algorithm
than before, we also record explicitly which version of each provider
was selected. In the old model, we'd repeat normal discovery when
reloading the lock file and then fail with a confusing error message if
discovery happened to select a different version, but now we'll be able
to distinguish between a package that's gone missing since installation
(which could previously have then selected a different available version)
from a package that has been modified.
Martin Atkins